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John Hungerford Pollen(1820-1902)
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Pollen converted to Roman Catholicism in 1852 and was appointed by Newman in 1854 professor of fine arts at the Catholic university, where he designed the university church, St. Stephen’s Green, consecrated in 1856.See Suzanne Fagence Cooper, ‘Pollen, John Hungerford (1820–1902)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.