George Pollard (politician)

George Pollard

Sir George Herbert Pollard (20 October 1864 – 27 August 1937) was a British physician, barrister and Liberal politician.

He was the son of James Pollard of Southport, Lancashire.[1]

Pollard was educated at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities. He received a Bachelor of Medicine degree from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1886, and was the first prizeman in Public Health.[2]

In 1888 he married Charlotte Elizabeth Butterworth. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1893, and was elected mayor of the Borough of Southport in 1897.[1]

He was an active participant in Liberal politics, and stood unsuccessfully for election to parliament at Southport in 1892, and Chatham in 1895.[2][3] In 1906 he was elected MP for Eccles, and held the seat until the 1918 general election.[2]

He was a member of the General Council of University of Edinburgh and assistant to the Professor of Midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.[2] During the First World War he was a medical advisor to the Ministry of Munitions on poison gas and chemical warfare.[1] In 1909 he was knighted.[4]

References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

  1. 1 2 3 Obituary: Sir George Pollard, The Times, August 28, 1937, p. 12
  2. 1 2 3 4 Biographies Of Candidates, The Times, Wednesday, June 29, 1892, p. 3
  3. ↑ News in Brief, The Times, Tuesday, May 22, 1894, p. 7
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 28321. p. 9763. 1909-12-24. Retrieved 2008-09-23.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Octavius Leigh Leigh-Clare		 Member of Parliament for Eccles
1906–1918 		Succeeded by
Marshall Stevens


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