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About Herbert Charles Pollitt
- 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.
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