page_title: Herbert Charles Pollitt
hierarchical_section_title: Herbert Charles Pollitt
caption_attribution_description: English: Frederick Henry Evans (1853-1943). Herbert Charles Pollitt
context_page_description: Herbert Charles Pollitt, also known as Jerome Pollitt, was a patron of the arts and on-stage female impersonator who performed as Diane de Rougy. He became notorious as an Cambridge undergraduate due to his taste for Decadent art and literature, and was immortalised as the eponymous hero of an E.F. Benson novel in 1896. He became a very close friend of the artist Aubrey Beardsley, and had a brief but significant relationship with the occultist Aleister Crowley. Following his time at Cambridge, Pollitt moved to London and saw service in the First World War as a lance-corporal. He died in 1942.
context_section_description: Herbert Charles Pollitt (July 20, 1871 - 1942), also known as Jerome Pollitt, was a patron of the arts and on-stage female impersonator who performed as Diane de Rougy (a homage to Liane de Pougy). He became notorious as an Cambridge undergraduate due to his taste for Decadent art and literature, and was immortalised as the eponymous hero of an E.F. Benson novel in 1896. He became a very close friend of the artist Aubrey Beardsley, and had a brief but significant relationship with the occultist Aleister Crowley. Following his time at Cambridge, Pollitt moved to London and saw service in the First World War as a lance-corporal. He died in 1942.
caption: Portrait by Frederick H. Evans
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