Education
Pollock was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
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William Pollock
Edit ProfileVictorian athlete Chaplain of Street Patrick
Career
After a curacy at Street Thomas, Stockport he held incumbencies in Macclesfield, Street Helens, Liverpool and Bowdon. He was Chaplain of Street Patrick"s Newry 1837 and was collated as Archdeacon of Chester December 14th 1867. He resigned that office through failing health October 12th 1871 <rev> Pollocks of Newry and Descendants p65-66 by Rev Stewart Hartigan Master of Arts printed Birch & Company Folkestone.
Achievements
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He had eight children, and his eldest, his daughter Anna, married William Thompson Hill, an East India merchant,and was mother to the Rev William Pollock-Hill M.A Oxen,Vicar of Padgate, Bigbury and Stamford, the famous Victorian athlete and United Kingdom record holder for the 1 mile, and won the 1 mile and 3 mile on the same day in March 1895 at Queen"s Club meeting v Cambridge, a record never equalled.
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Born
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Died
October 11, 1873 (aged 61)