POLLEN, Sir John Walter, 2 Baronet (son of sir John Pollen, 1 baronet, d. 1814). b. Redenham house, near Andover 6 April 1784; succeeded 17 Aug. 1814; M.P. Andover 1820–31 and 1835–41; contested Andover 29 June 1841; colonel of South Hants. militia 25 June 1827 to 1854. d. Grosvenor hotel, 30 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London 2 May 1863. G.M. xiv 791 (1863).
POLLOCK, Alfred Atkinson (youngest son of sir David Pollock 1780–1847, chief justice of Bombay). b. 16 Feb. 1826; admitted at Westminster school 26 Jany. 1835; solicitor at 31 New Broad st. 1853–5; partner with Wm. Parke at 63 Lincoln’s inn fields 1855–64; practised alone 1864–72; partner with Arthur Pollock 1872 to death; composer of the songs O let the solid ground 1861; Remembrance 1861; O swallow, swallow, flying south 1880, the words by A. Tennyson; resided Heathfield, Hilford road, Hampstead. drowned while bathing at Totland bay, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 10 Aug. 1873, personalty sworn under £400,000, 10 Sept. 1873. Law Times 23 Aug. 1873 p. 317; Times 19 Sept. 1873 p. 5.
POLLOCK, Sir George, 1 Baronet (youngest son of David Pollock of Charing Cross, London, saddler to George III). b. London 4 June 1786; educ. R.M.A. Woolwich 1801–3; lieut. Bengal artillery 14 Dec. 1803, brigade major 1815–20; assistant adjutant general of artillery 1820–4; colonel commandant 3 March 1835 to death; commanded Bengal artillery in Burmese war 1824; commander of the armies west of the Indus Jany. 1842. forced the Kyber pass 5 April 1842, relieved sir Robert Sale at Jellalabad 16 April, defeated the Afghans at Mamookail Aug., at Jugdulluk 8 Sept., and again on 13 Sept., entered Cabul 16 Sept., released the prisoners 21 Sept., brought his army back in safety to India; commanded the Danapur division 1842; the thanks of both houses of parliament were voted to him 1843; acting resident at Lucknow Dec. 1843 to 1844; military member of supreme council of India 20 Sept. 1844 to 1845; granted a pension of £1,000 by the H.E.I. Co. 1846; voted freedom of city of London 6 April 1846, admitted 17 Dec. 1847; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; colonel of 1st Surrey rifles (Camberwell) 6 July 1861 to death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, G.C.B. 2 Dec. 1842; K.S.I. 19 Aug. 1861, G.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; a director of the East India company 12 April 1854 to April 1856; general 17 May 1859, field marshal 24 May 1870; constable of the Tower of London and lieutenant and custos rotulorum of the Tower Hamlets 14 Nov. 1871 to death; created baronet 26 March 1872. d. Walmer 6 Oct. 1872. bur. Westminster abbey 16 Oct., portrait by sir Francis Grant in the India office, and marble bust by Joseph Durham in National portrait gallery. C. R. Lowe’s Life of sir G. Pollock (1873) portrait; J. H. Stocqueler’s Memorials of Afghanistan (1843) 201 et seq.; A. Forbes’s The Afghan wars (1892) 30 &c. portrait; I.L.N. i 356 (1842) portrait, lix 441, 442 (1871) portrait; Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 349–52.
POLLOCK, James Samuel (son of Samuel Pollock, captain 43 foot). b. Strathallan, Isle of Man 1834; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861; C. of Bowdon, Cheshire 1861; C. of St. Paul’s, Birmingham 1861–4; C. of St. John the Evangelist, Hammersmith 1864–5; C. of St. Alban’s, Birmingham 1865–71, and P.C. of St. Alban’s 1871 to death; author of One hundred reasons against auricular confession 1867; Resting-places, a manual of christian doctrine 1870, 3 ed. 1877; Out of the body, a scriptural inquiry 1875; The measure of faith 1877; author with Thomas Benson Pollock of Gospel words 1876. d. St. Alban’s clergy house, Birmingham 22 Dec. 1895.
POLLOCK, Jessie (dau. of Mr. Fraser, actor). b. 1802; connected with the theatre royal, Marischal st. Aberdeen from 1817 to her death; m. (1) about 1830 Corbet Ryder, theatrical manager, Aberdeen, d. 1843; m. (2) about 1847 Mr. Pollock, actor, d. 1853; actress, lessee, and manager of the theatre, Aberdeen to 1862, on her final retirement from the stage presented with her portrait, as Lady Macbeth, painted by Innes 1874, the portrait is now in Her majesty’s opera house, Aberdeen; she was good in Helen Macgregor, Lady Macbeth, Emelia, Julia, Pauline, Lady Teazle, and Mrs. Simpson. d. Dalkeith 1 July 1875. bur. St. Peter’s cemetery, Aberdeen 5 July. J. K. Angus’ A Scotch play-house (1878) 26–8; Era 11 July 1875 p. 9; Aberdeen Journal 7 July 1875 p. 6.
POLLOCK, Sir Jonathan Frederick, 1 Baronet (brother of sir George Pollock 1786–1872). b. Piccadilly, London 23 Sept. 1783; educ. St. Paul’s school 1800, Perry exhibitioner to Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1803, scholar 1804, fellow 1807, senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1806, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1807, went northern circuit, became leader; K.C. 13 June 1827; bencher of I.T. 1827–44, reader 1836–7, treasurer 1837; commissary of univ. of Camb. 1824–35; F.R.S. 1816, F.G.S. 1818; attorney general for county palatine of Lancaster 1834–5; M.P. Huntingdon 2 May 1831 to April 1844; a comr. for inquiry into practice of courts of law 1831; attorney general 17 Dec. 1834 to 9 April 1835, and 6 Sept. 1841 to 15 April 1844; knighted at the Pavilion, Brighton 29 Dec. 1834; sergeant-at-law 15 April 1844; lord chief baron of court of court of exchequer 15 April 1844, retired 12 July 1866; P.C. 17 April 1844; created baronet 24 July 1866. d. at his seat Hatton, Middlesex 23 Aug. 1870. bur. Hanwell cemet. 29 Aug. Personal remembrances of sir F. Pollock, second baronet, 2 vols. (1887); E. Manson’s Builders of our law (1895) 76–81; Law mag. and law review xxx 200–16 (1871); Portraits of eminent conservatives (1 series 1836) portrait xxx; I.L.N. i 304 (1842) portrait, xlix 424 (1866) portrait, lvii 283 (1870); Law Journal v 479–81 (1870).
POLLOCK, Joseph (eld. son of Edward Pollock of co. Down, Ireland, barrister). b. co. Down, Ireland 1818; educ. Armagh college and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1829, B.A. 1834; barrister G.I. 11 June 1842, went northern circuit; practised in Manchester; judge of Salford court of record to Nov. 1851; judge of county court of Liverpool Nov. 1851, retired on pension of £1,000, Oct. 1857. d. 2 Dorset st. Manchester sq. London 26 May 1858. Law Times 5 June 1858 p. 146.
POLLOCK, William (brother of the preceding). b. 22 Sept. 1812; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1830, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1841, B.D. and D.D. 1868; V. of St. Thomas, Stockport to 1840; C. of Ch. Ch. Macclesfield 1841; V. of St. Helens, Lancs. 1841–6; P.C. of St. Mark’s, Liverpool 1846–56; V. of Bowden, near Altrincham 1856 to death; archdeacon of Chester and hon. canon of Chester cathedral 1867, resigned 1870; author of Foundations, being a series of essays on fundamental truths 1856; Fourteen reasons for responding and singing in church 1866; The temptation of our blessed Lord, and other poems 1873. d. Devonshire place, Claughton, Birkenhead 11 Oct. 1873. I.L.N. lxiii 399 (1873).
POLLOCK, Sir William Frederick, 2 Baronet (son of sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock, 1 baronet 1783–1870). b. 23 Bernard st. Russell sq. London 3 April 1815; educ. St. Paul’s sch. 1825–33, and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1835; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1838; revising barrister northern circuit 1840; master in court of exchequer Aug. 1846; queen’s remembrancer 18 Dec. 1874; resigned Sept. 1886; president of Equitable assurance society; member of Royal toxophilite soc. 15 July 1858, which he assisted financially and gave to it prizes for competition; succeeded as 2 baronet 23 Aug. 1870; author of The divine comedy, or the inferno, purgatory and paradise of Dante rendered into English 1854; Personal remembrances 1887; edited Reminiscences of W. C. Macready, 2 vols. 1876; m. 1844 Juliet, dau. of rev. Henry Creed, vicar of Corse, Gloucs., she was a well known toxophilite. d. 59 Montagu sq. London 24 Dec. 1888. Follett’s Archer’s register (1889) 67–9; Personal remembrances of sir F. Pollock, second baronet, 2 vols. (1887).
POLLOK, Arthur (son of Thomas Pollok). b. Faside 1781; with his brother John entered grocery business of Allan Pollok, Glasgow; they joined Allan Gilmour as wood merchants 1804, the firm being Pollok, Gilmour and Co. Glasgow; he managed the branch at Grangemouth, then the branch houses at St. John and Miramichi 1808; started ship building yards at Quebec and acquired forests and saw mills; the largest ship owners in the United Kingdom; retired from business 1853; John Pollock b. Faside 1778, d. 1858; he d. Broom, Faside 1870. J. Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii 263–4 (1886) portrait.