POLLOCK  , the name of an

English family which has contributed many important members to the legal and other professions . David Pollock, who was the son of a Scotsman and built up a prosperous business in London as a saddler, had three distinguished sons: Sir David Pollock (1780-1847), chief justice of Bombay; Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock, Bart . (1783-1870), chief baron of the exchequer; and Sir George Pollock, Bart . (1786-1872), field-marshal . Of these the more famous were the two last . Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, who rendered valuable military service in India, and especially in Afghanistan in 1841-1843, ended his days as constable of the Tower of London, and was buried in Westminster Abbey; his baronetcy, created in 1872, descended to his son Frederick (d . 1874), who assumed the name of Montagu-Pollock, and so to his heirs . Chief Baron Sir J . Frederick Pollock, who had been senior wrangler at Cam-bridge, and became F.R.S. in 1816, was raised to the bench in 1844, and created a baronet in 1866 . He was twice marriedand had eight sons and ten daughters, his numerous descendants being prominent in many fields . The chief baron's eldest son, Sir William Frederick Pollock, 2nd Bart . (1815-1888), became a master of the Supreme Court (1846) and queen's remembrancer (1874); his eldest son, Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Bart .

(b . 1845), being the well-known jurist and legal historian,

fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Corpus professor of jurisprudence at Oxford (1883-1903), and the second son, Walter Herries Pollock (b. r85o), being a well-known author and editor of the Saturday Review from 1883 to 1894 . The chief baron's third son, George Frederick Pollock (b . 1821), became a master of the Supreme Court in 1851, and succeeded his brother as queen's (king's) remembrancer in 1886; among his sons were Dr W . Rivers Pollock (1859-1909), Ernest Murry Pollock, K.C . (b . 1861), and the Rt . Rev . Bertram Pollock (b . 1863), bishop of Norwich, and previously head master of Wellington College from 1893 till 1910 . The chief baron's fourth son, Sir Charles Edward Pollock (1823-1897), had a successful career at the bar and in 1873 became a judge, being the last survivor of the old barons of the exchequer; he was thrice married and had issue by each wife .