Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, PC (23 September 1783 – 28 August 1870) was a British lawyer and

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politician.

Background and education

Pollock was the son of saddler David Pollock, of

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, and the elder brother of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet. An elder brother, Sir David Pollock, was a judge in India. The Pollock family were a branch of that family of Balgray, Dumfriesshire; David Pollock's father was a burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and his grandfather a yeoman of Durham. His business as a saddler was given the official custom of the royal family. Sir John Pollock, 4th Baronet, great-great-grandson of David Pollock, stated in Time's Chariot (1950) that David was, 'perhaps without knowing it', Pollock of Balgray, the senior line of the family (Pollock of Pollock or Pollock of that ilk) having died out. Pollock was educated at St Paul's School and

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. He was Senior Wrangler at

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. He is also thought to be one of the founding members of the

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, along with Henry Bickersteth and Sir Edward Hall Alderson, both of Gonville and Caius College.

Political, legal and mathematical careers

Pollock was

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(MP) for

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from 1831 to 1844. He served as

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between 1834 and 1835 and 1841 and 1844 in the

administrations of Sir Robert Peel. In 1841 he was admitted to the

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and in 1844 he was appointed

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, a post he held until 1868. Having been

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on 29 December 1834, Pollock was created a Baronet, of Hatton in the County of Middlesex, on 2 August 1866. Apart from his political and legal career Pollock was elected a

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in 1816. He contributed a number of papers in mathematics to the

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, including one on what is now known as the Pollock's conjecture.

Family

Pollock died in August 1870, aged 86, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son,

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, sometime Queen's Remembrancer. His fourth son, Charles Edward Pollock, apprenticed to his father, had no university education. He became a law reporter then co-serving Baron of the Court of Exchequer, becoming the last in that appeal court. Another son, George Frederick Pollock, was Master of the Supreme Court succeeded his eldest brother as Queen's Remembrancer. Two of Pollock's grandsons became prominent lawyers: Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet (d.1937), was Professor of Jurisprudence at the

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;

Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, KBE, PC (25 November 1861 – 22 October 1936), was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge. He served as Master of the Rolls from 1923 to 1935. Background Pollock was born in Wimbledo ...

(d.1936), served as

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References

External links

* * * * *
Descendants of Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Bt.
* * * Archives of Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Barone
(Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock and family fonds, R1358)
are held at

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