Peggy Pollard (
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Also known as
Margaret Steuart Gladstone; Arlodhes Ywerdhon
Short biography
Pollard was a scholar of Sanskrit as well as a poet and bard of the Gorsedh Kernow.
Full biography
She attended Newham College, Cambridge from 1920, where she was the first women to achieve a double first-class honours in Oriental Languages. She married Captain Frank Pollard, an expert on Cornish history and herself became a bard and member of Gorsedh Kernow in 1938. She took the bardic name Arlodhes Ywerdhon, 'The Irish Lady' in Cornish.
She published Bewnans Alysaryn, a Cornish-language miracle play, in 1941. She was also a founding member of Ferguson's Gang, an anonymous group of supporters of the National Trust in its early stages. She converted to Roman Catholicism in 1951 and lived in Truro until her death.
Date of birth
01 March 1904
Date of death
13 November 1996
Place of death
Truro, Cornwall
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