John Pollock was the son of
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet and Georgina Harriet Deffell, younger daughter of John Deffell, of Calcutta. He was educated at
Eton College, graduated in 1900, and continued his education at
Trinity College, Cambridge (Bachelor of Arts, Fellow 1902, Master of Arts 1904). From 1915 to 1919, John Pollock was in Poland and Russia as chief commissioner of the Great Britain to Poland and Galicia Fund under the Russian Red Cross. He was awarded the
Order of Saint Anna. In 1920 he married famous Russian actress
Lydia Borisovna Yavorskaya (Gubbenet / Hubbenet) (1874–1921), ex-wife of writer prince
Vladimir Baryatinskiy. They had no children, and the next year she died. On 28 April 1925 he married Alix Soubiran, daughter of Jean Julien I'Estom Soubiran, of Bordeaux. She died on 14 April 1968. Pollock succeeded as 4th Baronet on 18 January 1937. He died on 22 July 1963 at age 84. Pollock's son, George Frederick Pollock (1928–2016), a photographer and inventor, succeeded to the baronetcy. == Works ==