Mrs Julia Pollock
(1829-1914)

[A pencilled inscription verso identifies the sitter. Stylistically, one would expect this portrait to be found in either Volume 1 or Volume 2 of the Silvy daybooks but it does not appear there. It is probably one of the 200 or so portraits that were excised from Volume 1 prior to its acquisition by the National Portrait Gallery in 1904.]

Born in or about 1829 at Lower Clapton, Julia Clements was the daughter of Reverend James Crook Clements, who died at Lower Clapton in 1841.

On 2 May 1848 she married barrister Robert John Pollock, formerly a Captain in the 8th Madras Cavalry, second son of Frederick Pollock, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

Their marriage produced four children before Captain Pollock’s death, aged 36, on 7 May 1853.

Mrs Julia Pollock appears on the 1861 census, a widow living at 1 Cleveland Terrace, Paddington. Also present on the night of the census were an unmarried stepdaughter, her own three daughters, her only son, a governess and four servants.

In 1901 she was living at 2 Kensington Gate in London with an unmarried daughter and three servants.

Mrs Julia Pollock died, aged 85, on 15 June 1914 at 2 Kensington Gate, London. She left an estate valued at £3935.

[A Silvy portrait of the sitter’s mother-in-law appears on page 85 of this section.]