David Bertram Pollock, 2nd Viscount Hanworth (1 August 1916 – 31 August 1996), was a British engineer, soldier, barrister, and peer, a member of the

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from 1936 until his death. Hanworth was the son of Charles Thomas Anderson Pollock, an officer

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in 1918, and his wife Alice Joyce Becher. His father was the only son of

Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth (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. Background Pollock was born in Wimbledon, London, ...

. He was educated at the

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, and commissioned into the

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, in which he rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel."Hanworth, 2nd Viscount cr. 1936, of Hanworth, co. Middlesex (David Bertram Pollock) (Bt 1922; Baron 1926)"

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, online edition, published 1 December 2007 In 1936, he succeeded his grandfather as the second Viscount Hanworth, only months after the viscountcy had been created, but was then too young to take his seat in the Lords. In 1958, Hanworth was called to the bar from the

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. He was a

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, and a Fellow of the

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and the

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, and a member of the

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. In 1940, Hanworth married Isolda Rosamond Parker, one of the daughters of Geoffrey Parker, of Cairo. They had two sons, including David Stephen Geoffrey Pollock (born 1946), and one daughter. He died in 1996 and was succeeded by his elder son.

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