He was an early contributor to Crusade, the monthly magazine launched in the wake of the Billy Graham campaigns of the 1950s. It soon became his main occupation, although he continued to assist occasionally in parochial ministry well into his eighties.Īmong his early books were a history of the Cambridge Inter-collegiate Christian Union (CICCU), A Cambridge Movement (1953), and the story of the “Cambridge Seven”, pioneer missionaries of a previous era. After that curacy, he took on the editorship of the Evangelical theological journal The Churchman, and combined it with the incumbency of Horsington, in Bath & Wells diocese.īy then, he had begun a literary career that would span 50 years. THE Revd John Charles Pollock, who died on 6 January, aged 88, was one of the most prolific and distinguished Christian biographers of the past half-century.įrom Trinity College, Cambridge, he went on to train for the ministry at Ridley Hall, and in 1951 became curate to the redoubtable Colin Kerr at St Paul’s, Portman Square, in London.
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