Background
Pollock was the son of David Pollock, of Charing Cross, London, and the elder brother of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet.
Pollock was the son of David Pollock, of Charing Cross, London, and the elder brother of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet.
He was educated at Street Paul"s School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University. He served as Attorney General between 1834 and 1835 and 1841 and 1844 in the Tory administrations of Sir Robert Peel. In 1841 he was admitted to the Privy Council and appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, a post he held until 1868.
Pollock was created a Baronet, of Hatton in the County of Middlesex, in 1866.
Apart from his political and legal career Pollock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816. He contributed a number of papers in mathematics to the Royal Society, including one on what is now known as the Pollock"s conjecture.
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet, was Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford and Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, served as Master of the Rolls.
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He is also thought to be one of the founding members of the Cambridge Union Society, along with Henry Bickersteth and Sir Edward Hall Alderson, both of Gonville and Caius College. Pollock was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Huntingdon from 1831 to 1844.