John Pollen
John Pollen may refer to: * John Hungerford Pollen (senior) (1820–1902), English writer on crafts and furniture * John Hungerford Pollen (Jesuit) (1858–1925), English Jesuit, known as a historian of the Protestant Reformation * John Pollen (died 1775), British lawyer and politician * John Pollen (died 1719), his father, MP for Andover Andover may refer to: Places Australia * Andover, Tasmania Canada * Andover Parish, New Brunswick * Perth-Andover, New Brunswick United Kingdom * Andover, Hampshire, England ** RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station United States * Ando ...

John Hungerford Pollen (senior)
John Hungerford Pollen (1820–1902) was an English writer on crafts and furniture. Life He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was ordained as an Anglicanism, Anglican priest in 1845, with a parish in Leeds from 1847, writing of his experiences.''Concise Dictionary of National Biography'' He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1852. He worked on numerous decorative projects in the 1850s, starting with the hall ceiling at Merton College, Oxford, where he was a Fellow from 1842; his conversion entailed his giving up that fellowship. Other works, mainly in collaboration, were on the University Museum in Oxford, and the Oxford Union murals, Arthurian murals at the Oxford Union, in a group led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and including William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Valentine Cameron Prinsep, Val Prinsep, and Roddam Spencer Stanhope. He worked with John Henry Newman on church architecture and decoration. He was responsible for the design of the Newman Universi ...
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