Sir David Pollock (2 September 1780 – 22 May 1847) was a British judge in India. Born in London, David Pollock was the eldest son of David Pollock, saddler, of Charing Cross, by Sarah Homera, daughter of Richard Parsons of London, receiver-general of customs. He was of Scottish extraction, his grandfather, John Pollock, having been a native of Tweedmouth. Field-Marshal

Sir George Pollock Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet (4 June 1786 – 6 October 1872) was a British Indian Army officer. He first saw action at the Battle of Deeg and at the Siege of Bhurtpore during the Second Anglo-Maratha War before taking part ...

and Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock,

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, were his brothers. He was educated at St. Paul's School and the University of Edinburgh, but did not graduate. On 28 January 1803 he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple. Pollock practised as a special pleader on the Home Circuit, at the Kent sessions, and in the insolvent debtors' court. He

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in Hilary vacation 1833, was appointed Recorder of

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in 1838, and commissioner of the insolvent debtors' court in 1842. By patent of 2 September 1846 he was created a knight on succeeding Sir Henry Roper as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bombay. where he was sworn in on 3 November 1847. He died of liver complaint on 22 May 1847. His remains were interred in Bombay Cathedral. Pollock married, on 12 December 1807, Elizabeth Gore, daughter of John Atkinson, by whom he had issue seven sons and a daughter. Lady Pollock died on 16 April 1841.

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