Lady Pollock
(1815-1895)
11 July 1865

Volume 12, page 347, sitting number 16,538.

[Identified only as ‘Lady Pollock’ in the Silvy daybooks, this sitter visited the studio on 11 July 1865. Within a month, three younger women with the same surname had also sat for Silvy: Helena Pollock on 1 August 1865, and Anna and Emily Pollock on 5 August 1865. These younger women were three of the daughters of Sir Frederick Pollock and his wife Lady Sarah Pollock.]

Born on 14 December 1815 at Calcutta in India, Sarah Anne Amowah Langslow was the daughter of Captain Richard Langslow of the Honourable East India Company.

On 7 January 1834 she became the second wife of the much older Sir Frederick Pollock, the Attorney General and from 1844 the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer. Sir Frederick had already fathered thirteen children with his first wife; his second marriage was to produce at least another ten children.

The family appear on the 1861 census living at Hatton near Hounslow in Middlesex. The household included ten servants, with various gardeners living nearby.

The Right Honourable Sir Frederick Pollock died, aged 86, on 28 August 1870, leaving an estate valued at £45,000.

When the census was taken in 1891, Lady Pollock was still living at Hatton with three of her unmarried daughters.

Lady Pollock died, aged 79, at her residence, Hatton Feltham, on 1 April 1895. She left an estate valued at £12,968.