Walter Herries Pollock

Born on February 21, 1850, Walter Herries Pollock was an English writer, journalist, poet, and lecturer. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, and then turned toward literary and journalistic work instead.

Pollock is best remembered as editor of the Saturday Review, a post he held from 1884 to 1894. Alongside his editorial career, he published a wide range of writing, including novels, short stories, plays, poems, and translations. His work stretched from the late 1870s into the early 20th century, showing the versatility of a writer comfortable in many different forms.

He also collaborated with other notable literary figures, including Andrew Lang and Walter Besant, and some reference works note that parts of his fiction touch on fantasy or speculative ideas. He died on February 21, 1926, on his seventy-sixth birthday, leaving behind the varied record of a classic Victorian man of letters.