A.F. Pollard

Albert Frederick Pollard was a British scholar who lived from December 16, 1869, to August 3, 1948. He was an expert on the Tudor era. In 1906, he was one of the people who started the Historical Association. Pollard was born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. He went to school in Portsmouth, Felsted, and Oxford, where he got a first-class honors degree in Modern History in 1891. In 1893, he became Assistant Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and also wrote for it. From 1903 to 1931, he...See more

Albert Frederick Pollard was a British scholar who lived from December 16, 1869, to August 3, 1948. He was an expert on the Tudor era. In 1906, he was one of the people who started the Historical Association. Pollard was born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. He went to school in Portsmouth, Felsted, and Oxford, where he got a first-class honors degree in Modern History in 1891. In 1893, he became Assistant Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and also wrote for it. From 1903 to 1931, he was Professor of Constitutional History at University College London. This was his main teaching job. He was on the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, and in 1906, he started the Historical Association. He was the editor of History from 1916 to 1922 and of the Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research from 1923 to 1939. He wrote 500 pieces for the Dictionary of National Biography and a lot of other history-related books and papers. Later in his life, he did a lot to make history a subject taught in schools in Britain. One of his most important books, The Evolution of Parliament, was published in 1920. See less