Bertram Pollock

Bertram Pollock (6 December 1863 – 17 October 1943) was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century.

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Born in Hanworth, Middlesex, on 6 December 1863 to George Frederick Pollock, a barrister and Remembrancer to Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, by his wife Frances, Bertram was the youngest of five sons, and also had a younger sister. His brother Ernest, a Conservative M.P. and Master of the Rolls, was created Viscount Hanworth in 1936. George Frederick Pollock was the third son of Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, of a family descended from David Pollok (sic) of that Ilk (d. 1546), a member of the Scottish Clan Pollock. The Montagu-Pollock baronets descend from Sir Frederick's younger brother, George.

Bertram was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1890. he was a Master and Chaplain at Marlborough and later Headmaster of Wellington College (1893–1910). Here one of his students was the author Harold Nicolson, who considered Pollock one of "the two who have influenced my intelligence" and "the most fascinating man I shall ever meet."

An Honorary Chaplain to the King, he was elevated to the Episcopate as Bishop of Norwich in 1910, a post he held for 32 years. An author, he died on 17 October 1943, leaving his wife Joan Florence Helena (m. 11 Oct. 1928), daughter of Algernon Charles Dudley Ryder and scion of the Earls Harrowby, and a daughter, (Mary) Rosalind Frances Felicia, b. 24 April 1931.