Pollock, Sir Frederick, 3rd Baronet

Pollock, Sir Frederick, 3rd Baronet

(born Dec. 10, 1845, London, Eng.—died Jan. 18, 1937, London) British legal scholar. He taught at the University of Oxford (1883–1903) and was made a king's counsel in 1920. He was noted for his History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (1895; written with Frederic W. Maitland) and several standard textbooks. He maintained a 60-year correspondence with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; the Holmes-Pollock Letters were published in 1941.