Margaret Steuart Pollard (née Gladstone; 1 March 1904 – 13 November 1996) was a poet and bard of the Cornish language. She was the founding member of Ferguson's Gang, a secret society of supporters of the National Trust, who had their headquarters at Shalford Mill.[1]
From 1920, she attended Newnham College, Cambridge,[2] where she was the first woman to gain first-class honours in Oriental Languages. She married Captain Frank Pollard, an expert on Cornish history, and they lived in Truro, Cornwall. By 1938, she had become a bard, and a member of the Cornish Gorsedd. She published Bewnans Alysaryn, a Cornish-language miracle play, in 1941.[3] She was an enthusiastic supporter of campaigns to defend the landscape, language and traditions of Cornwall and rural England. On one occasion she donated £100 to the National Trust as part of Ferguson's Gang, wearing a full mask to preserve her anonymity.[4]
In 1947, a book about her home county, entitled Cornwall, that she had written was published by Paul Elek.[5] She has been described as "humorous, perceptive, and intelligent".[3] In 1951 she converted to Roman Catholicism, and in 1973 built a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Our Lady of the Portal and St Piran on the site of a medieval chapel in Truro. For this she received the Benemerenti Medal from the Pope.[4]
She remained an active poet and translator throughout her long life. She had given away much of her inherited wealth after her husband's death in 1968 and lived in a one-up-one-down, which was an old tin miner's cottage on Richmond Hill, Truro.[6] She remained a romantic figure, dressed as she was in a long skirt and a scarf wrapped around her head. She died at the age of 93 on 13 November 1996 at Truro.[3]
She was the great great-niece of former prime minister William Ewart Gladstone.[4]
^Limb, Sue (2014). Breaking Bounds: Six Newnham Lives. Newnham College, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0993071508.
^ abcJenkin, Ann Trevenen (7 December 1996). "Obituary: Margaret Pollard". The Independent. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
^ abcPolly Bagnall & Sally Beck (2015). Ferguson's Gang: The Remarkable Story of the National Trust Gangsters. Pavilion Books. p. 10. ISBN 978-1909881716.
^Pollard, Peggy (1947). Cornwall. London: Paul Elek.
^Pollard, Peggy (1947) Cornwall. London: Paul Elek, pp. 11-13
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