Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth

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Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth

Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth PC KBE KC JP (born November 25, 1861 in Wimbledon , Surrey , † October 22, 1936 ) was a British politician of the Liberal Unionists and most recently the Conservative Party and lawyer who held the constituency for 13 years Warwick and Leamington was a member of the House of Commons , was Solicitor General and Attorney General and was raised to the nobility in 1926 as Baron Hanworth , and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death . He held from 1923 to 1935 as Master of the Rolls, the second highest judge's office in the English legal system and was also raised to Viscount Hanworth on January 17, 1936 .

Life

Lawyer and Member of the House of Commons

Pollock, son of the lawyer George Frederick Pollock, completed a law degree at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge after attending the renowned Charterhouse School in Godalming , graduating with a Master of Arts (MA). After the lawyer's admission to the Bar ( Inns of Court ) from Inner Temple , he took a position as 1885 Barrister and was for his 20-year-old lawyer's services in 1905 to Attorney General (King's Counsel) appointed.

A few years later he began his political career and was elected to the House of Commons for the Liberal Unionists, one of the predecessor parties of the Conservative Party, on December 3, 1910, where he represented the constituency of Warwick and Leamington until December 6, 1923 . In addition to his deputies activity Pollock served from 1911 to 1923 as a municipal judge ( recorder ) of Kingston upon Thames and was in 1914 one of the so-called Bencher and Treasurer (Treasurer) called the Bar Association of the Inner Temple. In 1917 he was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) and from then on carried the suffix "Sir".

Solicitor General, Attorney General and Master of the Rolls

On January 10, 1919, Pollock succeeded Gordon Hewart as Solicitor General one of the most important legal advisers in the government of Prime Minister David Lloyd George and held this position until he was replaced by Leslie Scott on March 6, 1922. He himself then succeeded Hewart again on March 6, 1922, from whom he now took over the office of Attorney General and held this position until the end of David Lloyd George's tenure on October 19, 1922. In 1922 he was also appointed Privy Counselor and by a letters patent dated November 27, 1922 to 1st Baronet Pollock, of Hanworth .

After the death of William Pickford, 1st Baron Sterndale on August 17, 1923, he succeeded him as Master of the Rolls and thus as Chairman of the Civil Senate of the Court of Appeal. Until his replacement by Robin Wright in 1935, he held the second highest judicial office in the English legal system after the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales .

By a letters patent dated January 28, 1926, Pollock was appointed to the hereditary nobility as 1st Baron Hanworth, of Hanworth in the County of Middlesex and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death. Baron Hanworth, which includes the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor was awarded and temporarily also justice of the peace justice of the peace was also acted out in 1934 as High Steward of Stratford-upon-Avon .

Most recently, on January 17, 1936, a few months before his death, he was appointed 1st Viscount Hanworth, of Hanworth in the County of Middlesex .

On April 12, 1887, Pollock married Laura Helen Salt, whose father Thomas Salt had represented the Stafford constituency as a member of the House of Commons for the Conservative Party for 21 years . From this marriage went the daughter Marjorie Laura Pollock and the son Charles Thomas Anderdon Pollock, who, however, fell as captain of the 1st / 4th East Yorkshire Regiment in the First World War on January 31, 1918. This led to the fact that his only son David Bertram Pollock inherited the title of 2nd Viscount Hanworth and the associated title of 2nd Baron Hanworth and 2nd Baronet Pollock after the death of his grandfather in 1936.

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predecessor Office successor
New title created Baron Hanworth
1926-1936 		David Pollock
New title created Viscount Hanworth
1936 		David Pollock
personal data
SURNAME Pollock, Ernest, 1st Viscount Hanworth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollock, Ernest Murrary, 1st Viscount Hanworth, of Hanworth in the County of Middlesex, 1st Baron Hanworth, of Hanworth in the County of Middlesex, 1st Baronet Pollock, of Hanworth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Wimbledon , Surrey
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1936