George Pollard (politician)

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

George Pollard

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
  1. Obituary: Sir George Pollard, The Times, 28 August 1937, p. 12
  2. Biographies Of Candidates, The Times, Wednesday, 29 June 1892, p. 3
  3. News in Brief, The Times, Tuesday, 22 May 1894, p. 7
  4. "No. 28321". The London Gazette. 24 December 1909. p. 9763.
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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