Background
Bollard was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, on either 17 December 1839 or 1 January 1840.
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He was elected to the Eden electorate in the 1896 general election, and retired in 1914. He spent a short time in the Australian goldfields around 1860-1861. He then went from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand, taking 200 horses on behalf of the military authorities, for the use of militia, war having broken out between Māori and the government a short time before.
Soon after arriving in Auckland he met Jane Ganly, who had also immigrated from Ireland.
Bollard farmed for several years, then became a land agent and valuer. He served as a sergeant in the militia during the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s, first at Otahuhu and then at the Avondale blockhouse.
He was chairman of the Avondale Road Board for 28 years, and at one time its engineer He was one of the founders and original trustees of Street Jude"s Church in Avondale, and a churchwarden for many years.
During the term of the 18th New Zealand Parliament, they were MPs at the same time.
Membership
He was a member of the Avondale School Committee from 1861 to 1915, and was chairman for all but three of those years. He was the coroner at Avondale for about 30 years, a justice of the peace for nearly 40 years, and a member of the Eden Licensing Committee and the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Their eldest son, Richard Bollard, was also a Member of Parliament.
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Political Party
Reform Party