Hugh MacDowell Pollock PC

Privy Council of Ireland

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 (1852 – 15 April 1937), was an Ulster Unionist

Ulster Unionist Party

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 member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland

Parliament of Northern Ireland

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 from 1921 until his death in 1937.

Born in Bangor, County Down

Bangor, County Down

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, Pollock was the director of several companies and served as a Belfast Harbour Commissioner from 1900 until 1921, and as President of the Belfast

Belfast

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 Chamber of Commerce

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 in 1917/18. At the Northern Ireland general election, 1921, he was elected in Belfast South

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, and he was immediately appointed as Northern Ireland's first Minister of Finance

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Was an Ulster delegate to the 1917-18 Irish Convention

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Pollock moved to represent Belfast Windsor

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in 1929, and served until his death in 1937.