Pocock, Roger
Entry updated 27 October 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1865-1941) UK adventure, journalist and author, noted for having interviewed Butch Cassidy, and for founding the patriotic Legion of Frontiersmen in 1905. The Chariot of the Sun: A Fantasy (1910) depicts a 1980 UK governed along the lines of Medieval Futurism: the reigning monarchy enforces a medieval life style, while at the same time advances in Technology have allowed Britain to maintain a Pax Aeronautica through the use of wireless Power Sources. In independent Lyonesse (ie Cornwall), however, an American entrepreneur operates a fleet of Airships powered by Antigravity. The workers revolt, and Invasion threatens, but in the end the monarchy is preserved, and a royal marriage is in the offing. The Wolf Trail (1923) is a Lost Race tale told in fantasy terms; its US edition [see Checklist below] wrongly gives the author's name as Roger S Pocock. [JC]
Henry Roger Ashwell Pocock
born Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales: 9 November 1865
died Weston-super-Mare, Somerset: 12 November 1941
works
- The Chariot of the Sun: A Fantasy (London: Chapman and Hall, 1910) [hb/]
- The Wolf Trail (London: Oxford University Press, 1923) [hb/]
- The Wolf Trail (New York: D Appleton and Company, 1923) as Roger S Pocock [hb/]
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