Hugh Alexander Pollock

Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Alexander Pollock DSO was a British publishing editor, who served as a soldier in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the First World War and in the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in the Second World War. Married three times, he was the first husband of Enid Blyton, and then Ida Pollock, both writers.

Hugh Alexander Pollock was born in Ayr, Scotland, the elder of the two sons of bookseller and publisher William Smillie Pollock and his wife Jessie Smith McBride. He was educated at Ayr Academy. He and his younger brother Fred worked in his fathers business.

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