Sir John Walter Pollen, 2nd Baronet of Redenham (6 April 1784 – 2 May 1863) was a

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and

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politician. He was the eldest son of Sir John Pollen, 1st Baronet of Redenham Park, Hampshire and educated at Eton (1799) and

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(1803) after which he entered

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to study law (1806). He succeeded in 1814 to the

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and the Redenham estate, upon the death of his father. He was commissioned as a

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in the South Hampshire Light Infantry Militia on 21 February 1810, transferring to the North Hampshire Militia as

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on 4 August 1812, before returning to the South Hants as Lieutenant-Colonel on 2 June 1814. In the years after the

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the

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remained disembodied apart from occasional training. On 25 June 1827 he was promoted to

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of the South Hants regiment, many months after the previous incumbent had died. He remained in titular command until the regiment disappeared in the militia reorganisation of 1853. Republished by Legare Street Press, 2023, Pollen was elected MP for

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at the 1820 general election and held the seat until

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when he did not seek re-election. He returned to the seat in

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and held it again until

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, when he stood but was defeated. He married in 1819, Charlotte Elizabeth, the daughter of Rev. John Craven of

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, Wiltshire, but left no children. Upon his death in 1863 he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew Sir Richard Hungerford Pollen, 3rd Baronet. Redenham passed to his widow and on her death in 1877 to the son of the 3rd Baronet, also Richard Hungerford Pollen, later the 4th Baronet.

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Tory MPs (pre-1834)