Albert Pollard

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Albert Frederick Pollard was a British historian who specialized in the Tudor period. He was born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight on December 16, 1869, and died on August 3, 1948, at Milford-on-Sea.

Pollard studied and wrote about the history of the Tudors from a political viewpoint. Later in his career, he was a major force in establishing history as an academic subject in Britain.

He went to Jesus College, Oxford and achieved a first class honours in Modern History in 1891. He became Assistant Editor of and a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography in 1893. He was Professor of Constitutional History at University College London from 1903 to 1931. He was a member of the Royal Historical Manuscripts Commission, and founder of the Historical Association, 1906. He was Editor of History, 1916-1922, and of the Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 1923-1939. He published 500 articles in the Dictionary of National Biography, and many other books and papers concerning history. One of his most influential books was The Evolution of Parliament published in 1920, still read today as a leading history of the English Parliament.