Contemporary quotes by well-known people about Pollaky include these:
W.S.Gilbert
The keen penetration of Paddington Pollaky
(Patience or Bunthorne's Bride)
Charles Dickens
... are these men the agents of Pollaky and Co., and for what are they on the look-out?
(Small Beer Chronicles)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
... Mr Pollaky has just been here: his head and shoulders were covered with earth ...
(Letter written 1869)
Friedrich Engels
Pollaky has long had a Private Police Office in London ...
(Letter written 1882 — translated)
Centre (tall house):
13 Paddington Green, home of Paddington Pollaky as it looked in 2010, shortly before it was demolished.