Walter Herries Pollock (1850 - 1926)

Walter Herries Pollock (21 February 1850 – 21 February 1926) was an English writer, poet, lecturer and journalist. He is best known as editor of the Saturday Review, a position he held from 1884 to 1894, but also had published various miscellaneous writings that included novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translated works between 1877 and 1920. He was also, at one time, considered one of the best amateur fencers in Great Britain. Pollock was well known in Britain's literary circles during the Victorian era and was close friends with a number of writers, including Robert Lewis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Egerton Castle, W.E. Henley and Henry Irving. He was also involved in collaborations with Alexander Duffield, Sir Walter Besant, Andrew Lang, F. C. Grove and Camille Prévost and Lilian Moubrey.