Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth
Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth KBE PC KC (25 November 1861 – 22 October 1936) was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge. He served as Master of the Rolls from 1923 to 1935.
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[edit] Background
Pollock was the fifth son of George Frederick Pollock, fourth son of Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer.
[edit] Political and legal career
Pollock sat as member of Parliament for Warwick and Leamington from 1910 to 1923.[1] In 1919, under David Lloyd George, he was appointed Solicitor General which he remained until 1922, when he became Attorney General, but left this post the same year. He was appointed to the Privy Council in the 1922 New Year Honours[2] and was created a baronet later the same year. He left the House of Commons at the 1923 general election, and was replaced in his seat by Anthony Eden. The same year he was made Master of the Rolls. On 28 January 1926 he elevated to the peerage as Baron Hanworth, of Hanworth in the County of Middlesex.[3] He resigned as Master of the Rolls in 1935. The following year he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Hanworth, of Hanworth in the County of Middlesex, on 17 January 1936.[4]
[edit] Family
Lord Hanworth died later in October 1936, aged 74. He was succeeded in the viscountcy by his grandson David Bertram Pollock, 2nd Viscount Hanworth, his son Charles Thomas Anderdon Pollock (d. 1918) having been killed in the First World War.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)
- ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 32563. p. 10709. 30 December 1921.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 33129. p. 785. 2 February 1926.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 34247. p. 457. 21 January 1936.
[edit] References
- Dictionary of National Biography: Pollock, Ernest Murray
[edit] External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Hanworth
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Thomas Berridge |
Member of Parliament for Warwick and Leamington 1910–1923 |
Succeeded by Anthony Eden |
| Legal offices | ||
| Preceded by Gordon Hewart |
Solicitor General for England and Wales 1919–1922 |
Succeeded by Leslie Scott |
| Preceded by Gordon Hewart |
Attorney General for England and Wales 1922 |
Succeeded by Douglas Hogg |
| Preceded by Lord Sterndale |
Master of the Rolls 1923–1935 |
Succeeded by Lord Wright |
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baronet (of Hanworth) 1922–1936 |
Succeeded by David Bertram Pollock |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Viscount Hanworth 1936 |
Succeeded by David Bertram Pollock |
| Baron Hanworth 1926–1936 |
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- 1861 births
- 1936 deaths
- Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies
- Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs
- Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- Solicitors General for England and Wales
- Attorneys General for England and Wales
- UK MPs 1910
- UK MPs 1910–1918
- UK MPs 1918–1922
- UK MPs 1922–1923
- Masters of the Rolls
