George Pollard (politician)
Sir George Herbert Pollard (20 October 1864 – 27 August 1937) was a British physician, barrister and Liberal politician.
He was the son of James Pollard of Southport, Lancashire.[1]
Pollard was educated at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities. He received a Bachelor of Medicine degree from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1886, and was the first prizeman in Public Health.[2]
In 1888 he married Charlotte Elizabeth Butterworth. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1893, and was elected mayor of the Borough of Southport in 1897.[1]
He was an active participant in Liberal politics, and stood unsuccessfully for election to parliament at Southport in 1892, and Chatham in 1895.[2][3] In 1906 he was elected MP for Eccles, and held the seat until the 1918 general election.[2]
He was a member of the General Council of University of Edinburgh and assistant to the Professor of Midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.[2] During the First World War he was a medical advisor to the Ministry of Munitions on poison gas and chemical warfare.[1] In 1909 he was knighted.[4]
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External links[edit]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Pollard
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