Pollard, Alfred William, 1859-1944 (librarian, bibliographer and scholar)
Dates
- Existence: 1859 - 1944
Biography
Alfred William Pollard (1859-1944), librarian, bibliographer and English scholar, was born at 1 Brompton Square, Kensington, London, on 14 August 1859. In 1877 he went with an open scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, where he achieved first classes in classical moderations (1879) and literae humaniores (1881). In 1883 Pollard entered the printed books department of the British Museum and became co-editor of The Library in January 1904. In 1909 he published Shakespeare Folios and Quartos: a Study in the Bibliography of Shakespeare's Plays, 1594-1685, which remains a milestone in Shakespearian criticism. Pollard became keeper of printed books in 1919 and retired in 1924. He died at Wimbledon Hospital on 8 March 1944.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Alfred William Pollard: Correspondence to Francis Jenkinson, A.G.W. Murray and A.J. Butler, 1896-1918
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Correspondence of Sydney Cockerell concerning the appointment of Bruce Rogers, 1917
Cockerell's correspondents are A. W. Waller, Emery Walker, A. W. Pollard, and J. B. Peace.
Letter from A. W. Pollard to Bruce Rogers, 1919 (For the date see McKitterick, 235.)
The letter, concerning Alexander Moring, is undated.
of the British Museum, Hon. Secretary of The Bibliographical Society, to Prof. Silvanus Thompson, 4 Feb 1898
These were found mainly in envelopes bearing biographical information provided by Munby.