Albert Pollard
Albert Frederick Pollard was a British
historian who specialized in the
Tudor period. He was born in
Ryde on the
Isle of Wight on
December 16,
1869, and died on
August 3,
1948, at
Milford-on-Sea.
Pollard studied and wrote about the history of the Tudors from a political viewpoint. Later in his career, he was a major force in establishing history as an academic subject in Britain.
He went to Jesus College Oxford and achieved a first class honours in
Modern History in
1891. He became Assistant
Editor of and a contributor to the
Dictionary of National Biography in
1893. He was Professor of Constitutional History at
University College London from 1903 to 1931. He was a member of the
Royal Historical Manuscripts Commission, and founder of the
Historical Association, 1906. He was Editor of History, 1916-1922, and of the Bulletin of the
Institute of Historical Research, 1923-1939. He published 500 articles in the
Dictionary of National Biography, and many other books and papers concerning history.
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