Polding was first taught by the Benedictine nuns of the Convent of Our Lady of Consolation of Cambray, who as refugees from revolutionary France were located at Much Woolton, near Liverpool.
Polding wurde zuerst bei den Benediktinerinnen des Klosters Unser Lieben Frau von Consolation of Cambray unterrichtet, die seit der Revolution in Frankreich in Much Woolton in der Nähe von Liverpool lebten.