Bertram Pollock

{{Short description|Anglican bishop}}

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File:Bertram Pollock Vanity Fair 9 October 1902.jpg" — Pollock caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, October 1902]]

Bertram Pollock {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCVO}} (6 December 1863{{snd}}17 October 1943) was a Church of England bishop, schoolmaster, and author."Who was Who" 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}

Born in Hanworth, Middlesex,{{cite web|url=http://www.allsaintshanworth.com/AllSaintsJubilee_History.htm|last=Papfield|first=Wyn|title=All Saints Jubilee History|publisher=All Saints Church|date=2007|access-date=5 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202164537/http://www.allsaintshanworth.com/AllSaintsJubilee_History.htm|archive-date=2 February 2015}} on 6 December 1863 to George Frederick Pollock — a barrister and Remembrancer to Queen Victoria and Edward VII — and his wife Frances, Bertram was the youngest of five sons, and also had a younger sister. His brother Ernest, a Conservative MP and Master of the Rolls, was created Viscount Hanworth in 1936. George Frederick was the third son of Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, of a family descended from David Pollok (sic) of that Ilk (died 1546), a member of the Scottish Clan Pollock.{{Citation

| editor-first = Charles

| editor-last= Mosley

| editor-link= Charles Mosley (genealogist)

| year = 2003

| title = Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage

| edition = 107th

| publisher = Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd

| location= Wilmington, Delaware

| volume = 2

| page = 1807

|isbn= 978-0-9711966-2-9

}} (Cited at [http://www.thepeerage.com/p31865.htm#i318643 thePeerage.com], which accessed 21 May 2019) The Montagu-Pollock baronets descend from Frederick's younger brother, George.

Bertram was educated at Eagle House Preparatory School, Wimbledon (which moved in 1886 to a site adjacent to, and now incorporated with, Wellington College, Berkshire), then Charterhouse School. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1882, graduating BA (Classical Tripos, 1st class) in 1885, MA 1890, BD 1902, DD 1903.{{acad|id=PLK882B|name=Pollock, Bertram}}

He was ordained in the Church of England — made a deacon in Advent 1890 (21 December){{Church Times | title = Ordinations on Sunday last. | archive = 1890_12_24_1275 | issue = 1457 | date = 24 December 1890 | page = 1275 | accessed = 21 May 2019 }} and ordained a priest the Advent following (20 December 1891), both times by John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury in Salisbury Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = The ordinations. | archive = 1892_01_01_007 | issue = 1510 | date = 1 January 1892 | page = 7 | accessed = 21 May 2019 }} He was a Master and Chaplain at Marlborough and later Headmaster of Wellington College (1893–1910).{{cite book |editor=Malden, Richard | title= Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) | location= London | publisher= The Field Press| pages=1110| year=1920 | isbn=}} There, one of his students was the author Harold Nicolson, who considered Pollock one of "the two who have influenced my intelligence" and "the most fascinating man I shall ever meet."Harold Nicolson Volume One 1886–1929, Hamish Hamilton, 1980 {{ISBN|978-0-241-12354-6}}

An Honorary Chaplain to the King, he was appointed to the episcopate as Bishop of Norwich in 1910,New Bishop of Norwich The Times Thursday, 3 February 1910; p. 10; Issue 39186; col F a post he held for 32 years. He was consecrated a bishop on St Mark's Day 1910 (25 April), by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = Consecration of the Bishop of Norwich. | archive = 1910_04_29_563 | issue = 2466 | date = 29 April 1910 | page = 563 | accessed = 21 May 2019 }} He died on 17 October 1943.Obituary: Dr Bertram Pollock The Times Monday, 18 October 1943; p. 4; Issue 49679; col G

Pollock was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in 1921.