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Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Alexander Pollock DSO (29 July 1888 – 6 November 1971) was a British publishing editor, who served as a soldier in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the First World War and in the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in the Second World War.
The elder son, Hugh Alexander Pollock, was born c.1895, probably at the the family home at 42 Bellevue Crescent. He was educated at Ayr Academy, and joined his father's business.
Hugh Alexander Pollock was born on the 29th July 1888 at Garfield Villa, Hawkhill, Ayr (now 27 Hawkhill Avenue), the house in which his parents - William Smillie Pollock and Jessie Smith McBride, who had married on 29th April 1886 - lived before moving to Bellevue Crescent.
On 28th August 1924 Enid Blyton married Hugh Alexander Pollock, who was editor of the book department for the publishing firm George Newnes. The two of them had met when Enid was commissioned by Newnes to write a children's book about London Zoo — The Zoo Book (1924.)
8 nov 2020 · It reads: “Hugh Alexander Pollock, D.S.O., Lieut. Col. Royal Scots Fusiliers (29-7-88 – 6-11-71), Beloved husband of Ida.”
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Meets Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, an editor at the publishers George Newnes. Earns more than £300 from her writing — equivalent to the price of a small suburban house. March — Responsive Singing Games published — her second book, and the only book for which she wrote the music.
Major Hugh Alexander Pollock was an editor at Newnes, the publishers. He was about ten years her senior, had fought with the Royal Scots Fusiliers, and had been awarded the D.S.O. in 1919. Though he was already married, his wife had left him during the war, and Hugh obtained his divorce at Easter, 1924, the same time Blyton left her post at ...
