John Hungerford Pollen (senior)

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John Hungerford Pollen (1820–1902) was an English writer on crafts and furniture.

Life

He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.[1] He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1845, with a parish in Leeds from 1847, writing of his experiences.[2][3]

He became a Catholic convert and left the Church of England in 1852.[4] He worked on numerous decorative projects in the 1850s, starting with the hall ceiling at Merton College, Oxford, where he was a Fellow from 1842; his conversion entailed his giving up that fellowship.[2] Other works, mainly in collaboration, were on the University Museum in Oxford, and the Arthurian murals at the Oxford Union, in a group led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and including William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Val Prinsep, and Roddam Spencer Stanhope.[5]

He worked with John Henry Newman on church architecture and decoration. He was responsible for the design of the Catholic University Church in Dublin. He also worked on the Brompton Oratory.[6][7] Newman invited him to take up a position at the Catholic University of Ireland, and Pollen was Professor of Fine Arts there, from 1855 to 1857.[8]

He returned to England in 1857, settling in Hampstead, London. He worked for The Tablet, and through John Everett Millais expanded his contacts with the Pre-Raphaelite circle.[9]

Later he worked for the South Kensington Museum, where he was appointed assistant keeper in 1863, and was made editor to its science and art department, producing catalogues.[2][10] He compiled with Henry Cole a Universal Catalogue of Books on Art. This was a multi-volume project, beginning publication in 1870, its aim being to furnish a complete bibliographical record of art books in libraries of the West.[11][12]

Works

Family

Maria Hungerford Pollen (Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1857)

The architect C. R. Cockerell was his uncle.[13]

He married Maria Margaret La Primaudaye in 1855. As Maria Pollen, she was known as an author on lace.[14]

Of ten children, John Hungerford Pollen, Jesuit and writer, was his third child,[15] inventor Arthur Pollen was his sixth son.[16]

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Notes

  1. ↑ "Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions". Answers.com. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Concise Dictionary of National Biography
  3. ↑ "§18. Wiseman; Manning; Pollen; Faber; Dalgairns; W. G. Ward; de Lisle. XII. The Oxford Movement. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21". Retrieved 24 February 2016. C1 control character in |title= at position 228 (help)
  4. ↑ http://www.universitychurch.ie/NewmanAndTheChurch.html
  5. ↑ Carolyne Larrington, King Arthur's Enchantresses: Morgan and Her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition (20060, p. 157.
  6. ↑ http://www.opw.ie/about/Obair_June_2006/section000026.html
  7. ↑ "'South Kensington' and the Science and Art Department". Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  8. ↑ Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), p. 292.
  9. ↑ Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by Sidney Lee. Second Supplement. Volume 3. Neil - Young, article on Pollen.
  10. ↑ "FindArticles.com - CBSi". Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  11. ↑ "Book collections". Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  12. ↑ "National Art Library collection development policy: documentary materials". Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  13. ↑ "Apps - Access My Library - Gale". Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  14. ↑ "Maria Pollen - The Online Books Page". Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  15. ↑ Christian Tapp (2005). "Pollen SJ, John Hungerford". In Bautz, Traugott. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German) 24. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 1166–1174. ISBN 3-88309-247-9.
  16. ↑ Jon Tetsuro Sumida, In Defence of Naval Supremacy: Finance, Technology and British Naval Policy, 1889-1914 (1993), p. 76.
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