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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.
- British
- Imtarfa, Malta
- Publishing editor
Col Hugh Alexander Pollock was born on 29 July 1888, in Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. He married Enid Mary Blyton on 28 August 1924, in Bromley, Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 6 November 1971, in Malta, at the age of 83, and was buried in Mtarfa Military Cemetery, Mtarfa, Malta.
- Male
- Enid Mary Blyton, Ida Julia Crowe
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.
8 nov 2020 · Enid Blyton’s first husband buried at Mtarfa cemetery. “My father was an honourable man – not the flawed, inconsequential one which was the deliberate misconception perpetuated by Enid (Blyton)” –...
- samba.mary@gmail.com
- Features Writer
Fred Pollock died in 1954. 12 About 1972, the business was taken over by Holmes McDougall Ltd., but the shop closed a year or so later, ending a long connection between this corner and bookselling. The elder son, Hugh Alexander Pollock, was born c.1895, probably at the the family home at 42 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.)
On 28 August 1924, Blyton married Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO (1888–1971) at Bromley Register Office, without inviting her family. They married shortly after his divorce from his first wife, with whom he had two sons, one of them already deceased.
