F. H. Pollock

Frederick Hart Pollock (22 June 1842 – 10 November 1908) was an actor and publican, remembered as the lessee-manager of the Theatre Royal, Adelaide, South Australia

Pollock was born in Newport, Wales, and at age 18 voyaged to Melbourne where he had an uncle. He moved to New Zealand, where he took acting lessons from Clarance Holt, father of Bland Holt and who was in Dunedin for some years, then joined a company touring India and other Eastern countries. He was working as manager of the Corinthian Theatre, Calcutta when he first met the great actors George Titheradge and Boothroyd Fairclough. While in Singapore in 1875 he married the Perth actress Mary Myers and together toured the East. He brought a troupe of Japanese jugglers to Perth around this time. In 1879 they took the P. & O. steamer Siam in company with Titheradge to Melbourne, where both men appeared in the Australian debut of the Kotzebue play False Shame at the Academy of Music (later the "Bijou Theatre"). From 1881–1882 he was successful as agent and manager for the celebrated comedian Fred Marshall, then briefly acting manager of the Princess Theatre.

He was appointed treasurer of Adelaide's Theatre Royal, which he relinquished in 1884 to take over management of that city's refurbished Academy of Music, dubbed the "New Academy", on Rundle Street. The building was destroyed by fire the following year, incurring a great financial loss to Pollock. He then joined James Allison and George Rignold in managing the Adelaide company of Joseph Derrick's play Confusion which toured through Victoria and New South Wales. In 1886 Pollock managed a tour of Western Australia and the Near East by the Webb Marionette Company, then the 1887–88 Australian tour of veteran ventriloquist Fred MacCabe (c.1831–1904). He next managed Harry Rickards's 1888 Australian tour.

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