hosiery manufacturer). _b._ Nottingham 23 March 1829; calculated
the orbits of two comets 1847; an assistant at the South Villa
observatory, London 1851–2; assistant at Radcliffe observatory,
Oxford 1852, where he discovered four minor planets, Amphitrite
2 March 1854, Isis 23 May 1856, Ariadne 15 April 1857, and
Hestra 16 Aug. 1857; awarded Lalande medal of French academy
for the discovery of Isis; assisted sir George Airy in his
experiments for determining the mean density of the earth at
the Horton colliery, Shields 1854; director of John Lee’s
observatory at Hartwell 1859–60; government astronomer at Madras
Oct. 1860 to death; discovered Asia and 4 other minor planets
1861–8, and 8 variable stars 1862–77; prepared a catalogue of
stars for which 51,101 observations were made 1862–87; observed
the total eclipse of the sun on 18 Aug. 1868 at Masulipatam and
was the first to observe the bright line spectrum of the cornea;
F.R.A.S. 11 May 1860; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; author of Report of
the government astronomers on the total eclipse of the sun,
Madras 1868; Result of observations of the fixed stars made at
Madras observatory, 2 vols. 1887–8. _d._ Madras 23 June 1891.
_Monthly notices Royal Astronomical soc. lii_ 235–8 (1892);
_Nature 2 July 1891 pp._ 205–6.
POGSON, WREDENHALL QUEIROS. _b._ 9 Dec. 1816; ensign Bengal army
1836; ensign 43 Bengal N.I. 22 Aug. 1839, major 12 Sept. 1866;
lieut. col. Bengal infantry 6 March 1868, placed on unemployed
supernumerary list 1 July 1881; L.G. 23 Aug. 1884, general 22
Oct. 1889; served in Spain in the Anglo-Spanish legion 1836;
served in the first Afghan war 1840–2, the Sutlej campaign 1846,
and the Bhootan expedition 1864–6. _d._ St. Margaret’s place,
Brighton 9 Sept. 1891.
POITEVIN, MONSIEUR. Went up sitting on a pony attached to a
balloon; his wife posing as Europa went up on the back of a bull
Aug. 1852; went up from Cremorne gardens in a balloon with 21
persons 20 Sept. 1852, the balloon came down and was blown along
the ground for two miles, much hurting many of the passengers;
ascended on a horse near Paris 1852; nearly drowned in the sea
near Malaga while descending from his balloon 1858. _d._ 1858.
_Annual Register 1852 pp._ 128, 147.
POLACK, JOEL SAMUEL. _b._ London 28 March 1807; emigrated to
New Zealand 1831; a ship chandler in the Bay of Islands 1832,
purchased about 1,100 acres of land; returned to London May
1837; gave evidence before select committee of house of lords
on New Zealand 1838; a member of the Colonial society of London
1838; lived latterly at San Francisco; author of New Zealand, a
narrative of travels and adventures, 2 vols. 1838; Manners and
customs of the New Zealanders, 2 vols. 1840. _d._ San Francisco
17 April 1882.
POLAND, ALFRED (2 son of succeeding). _b._ London Aug. 1822;
educ. at Highgate gram. sch.; at Guy’s hospital; articled
pupil of Aston Key, paying £500; M.R.C.S. 1843, F.R.C.S. 1847;
demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1845, assist. surgeon 1849,
surgeon 1861, a most expert operator; gained Fothergill prize
of Med. soc. of London 1853 and Jacksonian prize 1857; surgeon
ophthalmic hospital, Moorfields, London; in practice at 42
Finsbury circus, London; F.M. and C. Soc. 1850; with G. H.
Barlow edited Guy’s hospital reports sometime; contributed to T.
Holmes’ System of surgery 1860 the articles Tetanus i 299–322,
Animal poisons i 618–49, Injuries of the chest ii 340–87, and
Urinary calculi and lithotomy iv 424–77. _d._ 2 Blackheath
villas, Blackheath, Kent 21 Aug. 1872. _Medical times and
gazette ii_ 338–9 (1872); _Proc. of royal Med. and Chir. soc.
vii_ 135–6 (1875); _Lancet 31 Aug. 1872 p._ 318.
POLAND, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (son of Peter Raymond Poland of
Highgate, Middlesex). _b._ 7 March 1797; sheriff of London and
Middlesex 1831, and as such knighted at St. James’s palace 9
March 1831. _d._ 2 Blackheath villas, Blackheath, Kent 17 Jany.
1884.
POLDING, JOHN BEDE. _b._ Liverpool 18 Nov. 1794; educ. St.
Gregory’s coll. Downside, near Bath, and at Acton Burnell
1805–10; joined the Benedictine order 16 July 1810, ordained
a priest 4 March 1819; tutor at St. Gregory’s college, March
1819; declined bishopric of Madras 1833; bishop of Australia
and Van Diemen’s Land 2 May 1834, being consecrated bishop of
Hiero-Cæserea 29 June 1834; arrived in Sydney 13 Sept. 1835,
inaugurated 20 Sept.; employed on a special mission to Malta,
made a count of the holy Roman empire and a bishop-assistant
to the papal throne 20 July 1842; archbishop of Sydney 20 July
1842 to death; visited Europe 1841, 1846–8, 1854–6, and 1865–6;
consecrated Dr. Murphy, bishop of Adelaide, the first bishop
consecrated in Australia 8 Sept. 1844. _d._ the Sacred heart
presbytery, Darlinghurst, Sydney 16 March 1877, twenty thousand
people attended his funeral. _Australian portrait gallery_
(1885) 79–84 _portrait_.
POLE, ARTHUR CUNLIFFE VAN NOTTEN (5 son of Charles Van Notten
Pole 1772–1864, resumed name of Van Notten by R.L. 19 July
1853). _b._ 3 July 1806; ensign 63 foot 7 Nov. 1826, lieut.
colonel 2 Sept. 1844 to 23 Dec. 1853; inspecting field officer
of recruiting districts 23 Dec. 1853 to 13 Dec. 1859; colonel 63
foot 27 March 1868 to death; L.G. 9 April 1868. _d._ 66 Oxford
terrace, Edgware road, London 21 Aug. 1873.
POLE, EDWARD (4 son of sir Peter Pole, 2 baronet 1770–1850).
_b._ 26 Aug. 1805; cornet 12 lancers 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 30
March 1847, placed on h.p. 5 March 1861; colonel 5 lancers 22
Nov. 1868 to 1 Jany. 1872; colonel 12 lancers 1 Jany. 1872 to
death; general 1 Oct. 1877; commanded the cavalry and artillery
in general Somerset’s expedition over the Kei 1851, and the 12
lancers in Kaffir war 1851–3; served in the Crimea from 9 May
1855. _d._ Poyle park, Tongham, Surrey 3 Feb. 1879.
POLE, EDWARD SACHEVERELL CHANDOS (1 son of Sacheverell Pole
1769–1813, who assumed by sign manual name of Chandos in 1807).
_b._ 1 March 1792; educ. Harrow 1813–7; matric. from St. Mary’s
hall, Oxf. 14 Feb. 1817; at Great Harlow military college;
ensign 1 foot guards 5 May 1808 to 1813; served in Walcheren
expedition, and in Spain and Portugal to 1813; succeeded to the
family property 14 April 1813; commanded Radbourne troop of
yeomanry cavalry 1813; sheriff of Derbyshire 1827; an associate
of British archæol. assoc. 1851; always known in Derby as The
Squire. _d._ Radborne hall, Derby 19 Jany. 1863. _Journal of
British Archæol. Assoc. xx_ 167 (1864); _G.M. March 1863 p._ 387.
POLE, WILLIAM (brother of A. C. Van Notten Pole). _b._ 6 July
1798; educ. Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824;
barrister M.T. 28 Nov. 1823; professor of civil engineering in
Univ. coll. London July 1859 to 1867, then in Elphinston coll.
Bombay; F.R.S. 9 April 1829, vice-president 1876; one of the
best whist players of his day; edited and completed The life
of sir W. Fairbairn, Bart. 1877; author of A treatise on the
Cornish pumping engine 1844 (being Appendix G in Tredgold on
the Steam engine); wrote On the strength and defects of beams
1850; On the theory of the modern scientific game of whist
1865, 15 ed. 1885; Iron as a material of construction 1872; The
philosophy of music 1877, 2 ed. 1887; The philosophy of whist
1883, 6 ed. 1892; The life of sir William Siemens 1888; The
evolution of whist 1895; resided at 13 Devonshire place, London
1866 to death. _d._ 13 Devonshire place, London 29 July 1884.
_W. P. Courtney’s English whist_ (1894) 224, 398.
POLE-CAREW, WILLIAM HENRY (1 son of Reginald Pole-Carew, M.P.,
_d._ 1835). _b._ St. Marylebone parish, London 30 July 1811;
educ. Charterhouse 1824–8 and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A.
1864; M.P. East Cornwall 1845–52; sheriff of Cornwall 1854;
recorder of East Looe 1857–86. _d._ Villa Poralto, Cannes 20
Jany. 1888.
POLEHAMPTON, HENRY STEDMAN (2 son of Edward Polehampton, rector
of Great Greenford, Middlesex). _b._ Great Greenford rectory
1 Feb. 1824; educ. Eton 1832–42; Wightwick scholar of Pemb.
coll. Oxf. 17 Nov. 1842 to 1845, fellow 1845–56; captain of
his college boat; rowed in the match with Cambridge 1846; B.A.
1846, M.A. 1849; C. of St. Chad’s, Shrewsbury, Easter 1849 to
30 Dec. 1855; R. of St. Aldate’s, Oxford 1849, resigned 1849;
an East Indian chaplain 1 Sept. 1855; appointed chaplain to the
Lucknow garrison 26 March 1856 to death; wounded during the
siege 8 July 1857. _d._ Lucknow hospital 20 July 1857. _bur._
in the residency gardens, memorial tablet in St. Chad’s ch.
Shrewsbury. _A memoir, letters, and diary of H. S. Polehampton_,
_3 ed._ (1859).
POLES, STEFAN. _b._ Poland 1847; educ. at Vitzburgh in Bavaria;
took part in an outbreak of the Poles against Russia, condemned
to death, fled from Poland 1864; a newspaper correspondent in
America; assisted in raising a regiment of Poles at Bordeaux to
fight against the Prussians 1870; intimate with the Communists
in Paris 1871, imprisoned at Versailles May to Dec. 1871, when
he escaped to England; brought an action against The Times for
accusing him of stealing documents from M. Thiers’ residence in
Paris and obtained £50 damages 10 Feb. 1874; author of Polska
expeditionen, Malmö, Köpenhamm 1863; Tio Dagar i Warschau,
Stockholm 1864; Zwei Regierungen in Warschau, Wien 1866; S.
Poles _v._ The Times, action for libel in reference to papers of
M. A. Thiers 1874; The actual condition of the British Museum,
a literary expostulation by Stefan Poles, London H. S. Warr 63
High Holborn 1875. _d._ Middlesex hospital, London about 22 Nov.
1875. _Times 26 Nov. 1875 p._ 7.
NOTE.--The World of 24 Nov. 1875 p. 14 insinuates that his real name
was Tugenhold, a converted Jew and Russian spy, son to the chief Rabbi
of Warsaw, who was censor of the press there previous to the last
uprising.
His pamphlet on the British Museum was sold in Russell st. in front
of the building by a sandwich man, but it is now very scarce. In this
work John Winter Jones the secretary and chief librarian with a clique
of his friends are denounced in strong language. Some of the Museum
officials furnished information for the compilation of the pamphlet.
POLHILL-TURNER, FREDERICK CHARLES (son of Frederick Polhill
1798–1848, capt. king’s dragoon guards). _b._ Howbury hall,
Bedford 14 March 1826; educ. Dr. Burney’s sch. Gosport; cornet
6 dragoon guards 2 Aug. 1844, captain 24 Nov. 1848, sold out 10
Feb. 1852; took additional name of Turner by R.L. Feb. 1853;
sheriff of Beds. 1855; capt. of duke of Manchester’s first
mounted volunteers 1860; M.P. Bedford 3 Feb. 1874 to 24 March
1880; contested Bedford 29 April 1859, 28 June 1859, 18 Nov.
1868, and 1 April 1880. _d._ Newcastle, co. Down 18 Aug. 1881.
POLLARD, JOHN (son of John Pollard, _d._ 1810). _b._ Kingsand,
Cornwall 27 July 1787; entered navy 1 Nov. 1797; signal
midshipman on board the Victory at battle of Trafalgar 21 Oct.
1805, helped to arrange the signal England expects every man
will do his duty; shot the Frenchman who killed lord Nelson;
congratulated by sir Thomas Hardy after the battle; lieut. 14
Nov. 1806; chief officer in coast guard, Stranraer district 2
Aug. 1836 to 12 Jany. 1853; lieut. at Greenwich hospital 12
Jany. 1853 to death. _d._ Greenwich hospital 22 April 1868.
_G.M. May 1868 p._ 786; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._
(1878) 504.
POLLARD, JOSHUA. _b._ Leeds 1815; in a mercantile house; removed
to Bradford where he was in business from 1837; the second
person who signed the pledge in Leeds; representative of Leeds
temperance soc. to conference of British temperance association
at Preston 1836; president of Bradford temperance soc. some
years; high chief ruler of Independent order of Rechabites;
member of Bradford town council 1852–66, alderman to 1868;
member of Bradford school board; removed to Nottingham 1877.
_d._ Ossington villas Nottingham 9 Dec. 1886. _bur._ Scholemoor
cemetery 13 Dec. _Bradford Observer 11 Dec. 1886 p._ 7.
POLLARD, WILLIAM (9 child of James Pollard). _b._ Horsham,
Sussex 10 June 1828; educ. Friends’ school, Croydon; a teacher
at Ackworth school, Yorkshire 1853–66; employed by Francis
Frith, photographer at Reigate 1866–72; secretary and lecturer
to Manchester peace and arbitration society, living at Sale,
Cheshire 1872–91; co-editor with W. E. Turner of the British
Friend, monthly periodical 1891; a minister among the Friends
from 1865; author of The Ackworth reading book 1865, 2 ed.
1872; The Stanleys of Knowsley, a history of that noble family
1868; Choice readings in English literature 1873; Old-fashioned
quakerism: its origin, results, and future, four lectures 1887;
contributed Primitive christianity revived and Congregational
worship to the Old Banner series of Quaker tracts 1864–6; author
with Francis Frith and W. E. Turner of A reasonable faith. By
Three Friends 1884 and 1886. _d._ Manchester 26 Sept. 1893.
_bur._ Friends’ burial ground, Ashton-on-Mersey, Manchester.
_Annual Monitor_ (1894) 126–39.
POLLARD-URQUHART, WILLIAM (eld. child of Wm. Dalton Pollard
of Kintuck, Castle-Pollard, co. Westmeath 1789–1839). _b._
Kintuck 19 June 1815; educ. Harrow 1829 and Trin. coll. Camb.,
scholar; 18th wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838. M.A. 1843; student at
Inner Temple; sheriff of Westmeath 1840; took additional name of
Urquhart by R.L. 1846; M.P. Westmeath 1852–7 and 1859 to death;
author of Agricultural distress and its remedies, Aberdeen 1850;
Essays on subjects of political economy 1850; The substitution
of direct for indirect taxation necessary to carry out the
policy of free trade 1851; Life and times of Francesco Sforza,
duke of Milan, 2 vols. 1852; A short account of the Prussian
land credit companies, Dublin 1853; Dialogues on taxation, local
and imperial 1867. _d._ 19 Brunswick terrace, Brighton 1 June
1871.
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_.
POLLOK, ROBERT. _b._ Neilston parish, Renfrewshire; educ. in
Ayrshire; entered univ. of Glasgow 1817; licensed by united
secession presbytery of Glasgow 1825; minister of Buckhaven,
Fifeshire 1826; minister of Kingston, Glasgow 1826 to death;
author of Apocalyptic regeneration, lectures, 2 vols. 1856–8.
_d._ 1879. _Our Scottish clergy_, _2 series_ 266–71 (1849).
POLTIMORE, GEORGE WARWICK BAMPFYLDE, 1 Baron Poltimore (only
child of sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, 5 baronet 1753–1823).
_b._ 23 March 1786; succeeded as 6 baronet 19 April 1823;
created baron Poltimore of Poltimore, Devon 10 Sept. 1831; lord
in waiting to queen Victoria 15 Aug. 1840, resigned Sept. 1841;
colonel of North Devon militia. _d._ Poltimore 18 Dec. 1858.
POLWARTH, HENRY FRANCIS HEPBURNE-SCOTT, 7 Baron (eld. son of
5 baron Polwarth 1758–1841, who assumed additional surname
of Hepburne). _b._ Brighton 1 Jany. 1800; M.P. Roxburghshire
1826–32; succeeded 28 Dec. 1841; a representative peer for
Scotland June or July 1843 to death; lord lieutenant of
Selkirkshire 8 Dec. 1845 to death; a lord in waiting to the
queen Feb. to Dec. 1852, Feb. to June 1859, and July 1866 to his
death; lieut. col. 1 batt. Roxburgh rifle volunteers 9 Nov. 1861
to death. _d._ Merton house, co. Berwick 16 Aug. 1867. _G.M. iv_
533 (1867).