Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet

Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet, (10 December 1845 – 18 January 1937) was an English jurist best known for his History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, written with F.W. Maitland, and his lifelong correspondence with US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles.

Life Pollock was the eldest son of William Frederick Pollock, Master of the Court of Exchequer, and Juliet Creed, daughter of the Rev, Harry Creed. He was the grandson of Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the great-nephew of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet, and the first cousin of Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, Master of the Rolls.

He was educated at Eton College, where he was a King's Scholar. He then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. He won the Pitt Scholarship in 1865, was Browne's Medallist in 1866, and graduated with his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree as Chancellor's Medallist (top classics student) in 1867.

He was elected fellow of his alma mater in 1868 (later Honourable Fellow in 1920). In 1871 he was admitted to the Bar. He wrote a series of textbooks that took a new approach to the teaching of English Law including The Principles of Contract at Law and in Equity (1876) and The Law of Torts (1887). He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1911. He was elected Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn in 1931. This marriage was annulled in 1912, and she remarried the same year Captain Orlando Cyprian Williams, MC, CB (d.1967). Frederick John Pollock (1878–1963), a noted historian, who succeeded to the baronetcy.

Fencing Together with his younger brother, Walter Herries Pollock, he participated in the first English revival of historical fencing, originated by Alfred Hutton and his colleagues Egerton Castle, Captain Carl Thimm, Colonel Cyril Matthey, Captain Percy Rolt, Captain Ernest George Stenson Cooke, Captain Frank Herbert Whittow.

He was cited in an 1897 slander case involving the London Fencing Club when Sir John Hutton was sued by a French naval officer, Rene Martin Fortris, who accused Hutton of falsely stating that Fortris had been making unwelcome advances towards his daughter for two years. According to Fortris, this led to Sir Frederick Pollock and John Norbury declining his application for membership of the London Fencing Club. The jury was unimpressed by Fortris's case and found in favour of Sir John Hutton.

Works 9th edition, 1921. A Digest of the Law of Partnership. F.H. Thomas and Company, St. Louis, 1878 2nd edition, 1892 volume II volume II 4th edition, 1918; 6th edition, 1929.

The Etchingham Letters. Dodd, Mead & company. 1898. With Ella Fuller Maitland

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