Career
Born in Bangor, County Down, Pollock was the director of several companies and served as a Belfast Harbour Commissioner from 1900 until 1921, and as President of the Belfast Chamber of Commerce in 1917/18. At the Northern Ireland general election, 1921, he was elected in Belfast South, and he was immediately appointed as Northern Ireland"s first Minister of Finance. Was an Ulster delegate to the 1917-1918 Irish Convention.
Pollock moved to represent Belfast Windsor in 1929, and served until his death in 1937.
