Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, KBE, PC (25 November 1861 – 22 October 1936), was a British

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politician, lawyer and judge. He served as

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from 1923 to 1935.

Background

Pollock was born in Wimbledon, the fifth son of George Frederick Pollock, grandson of Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet,

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. He was educated at

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and

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, graduating in 1883. He was called to the bar by the

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in 1885.

Political and legal career

Pollock sat as

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for

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from 1910 to 1923. In 1919, under

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, he was appointed Solicitor General which he remained until 1922, when he became

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, but left this post the same year. He was appointed to the

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in the 1922 New Year Honours and was created a

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later the same year. He left the

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at the 1923 general election, and was replaced in his seat by

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. The same year he was made

. On 28 January 1926 he elevated to the peerage as Baron Hanworth, of Hanworth in the County of Middlesex. 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.

Family

Lord Hanworth married Laura Helen Salt (1865–1954), daughter of banker and politician

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, in 1887. They had a son and daughter, Marjorie Laura, who married (Sir) Walter Leslie Farrer, solicitor to George VI. He died at his home in

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, in October 1936, aged 74. He was succeeded in the viscountcy by his grandson David Pollock, 2nd Viscount Hanworth, his son Charles Thomas Anderdon Pollock (d. 1918) having been killed in the

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Arms

Footnotes

References

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: Pollock, Ernest Murray

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