Viscount Hanworth
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Peerage of the United Kingdom
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. It was created on 17 January 1936 for the lawyer, Conservative
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and former Master of the Rolls
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, Ernest Pollock, 1st Baron Hanworth
Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth
Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth KBE PC KC was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and Master of the Rolls.He was the MP for Warwick and Leamington from 1910 to 1923...
. He had already been created a Baronet, of Hanworth in the County of Middlesex, on 27 November 1922, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, and Baron Hanworth, of Hanworth in the County of Middlesex, on 28 January 1926, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Pollock was the fifth son of George Pollock, fourth son of Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, of Hatton
Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet
Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet PC , was a British lawyer and Tory politician.-Background and education:...
(elder brother of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet, of The Khyber Pass). the titles are held by the first Viscount's great-grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1996. As a descendant of Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, of Hatton, he is also in remainder to this title, which is currently held by his kinsman Sir George Frederick Pollock, 5th Baronet.
Viscounts Hanworth (1936)
- Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount HanworthErnest Pollock, 1st Viscount HanworthErnest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth KBE PC KC was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and Master of the Rolls.He was the MP for Warwick and Leamington from 1910 to 1923...
(1861–1936) - David Bertram Pollock, 2nd Viscount Hanworth (1916–1996)
- David Stephen Geoffrey Pollock, 3rd Viscount HanworthDavid Pollock, 3rd Viscount HanworthDavid Stephen Geoffrey Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth is a British hereditary peer, academic and elected Labour member of the House of Lords....
(b. 1946)
The heir presumptive
Heir Presumptive
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is the present holder's nephew Harold William Charles Pollock (b. 1988)
See also
- Pollock Baronets, of Hatton, and Pollock Baronets, of The Khyber PassPollock BaronetsThere have been five Baronetcies created for people with the surname Pollock, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and four in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Three of the Baronetcies are extant as of 2010....