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1 NAME Walter /POLLARD/
1 SEX M
1 BAPM
2 DATE 25 Oct 1755
2 PLAC St. Michael, Barbados
1 EDUC
2 PLAC Eton
2 DATE BET 1761 AND 1766
1 EDUC
2 PLAC HARROW
2 DATE BET 1770 AND 1771.
2 NOTE With Crooke and Parnell he drew up a Pertition to the Governors at Harrow School objecting
3 CONC to the appointment of Dr. Heath of Eton as Headmaster. There followed riots at which the
3 CONC Governor's coach was stoned, rolled down the hill to the common, and there smashed to pieces.
3 CONC

The Governers sent the School home for a week and expelled the ringleaders altogether.
3 CONC among those mentioned above was Richard Wellesly, the future Governor General of India.

3 CONC Walter Pollard then went to the Rev. Dr. Parr's School at Stanmore.
1 EDUC
2 PLAC Dr. Parr's School at Stanmore
2 PLAC Emmanuel College, Cambridge
2 DATE 27 Oct 1772
2 NOTE Where according to Maurice's Memoirs "by his ingenuous temper, his sportive humour, his
3 CONC sprightly manners, his virtuous principles and his literary attainments he gained the love
3 CONC and admiration of all his fellow collegians". He left Cambridge without taking a degree.
1 NOTE he was admitted to the Inner Temple on 20 Jan 1772 and was called to the Bar on 21 Nov 1777.
2 CONC Towards the end of 1779 Walter Pollard decided to visit his father and with the help of
2 CONC friends, obtained a passage to Barbados with Admiral Rodney's fleet, arriving there early in
2 CONC 1780. He experienced the hurricane of October the 10th of that year about which a friend
2 CONC wrote:- "Walter Pollard and family have lost everything. He has nothing else left, and they
2 CONC could not be shaken by the wind or blasted by the lightning."

After the destruction of
2 CONC his father's estate he returned to London and practised at the Bar. In December 1783 he left
2 CONC for America and landed at Charlestown in February 1784. He first moved to Richmond, Virginia,
2 CONC where he attempted to obtain possession of some land which his father had won in a lottery.
2 CONC He also attempted to practise his profession at Caniden, South Carolina. In both these
2 CONC projects he seems to have been unsuccessful. The war of independence had left much ill feeling
2 CONC except in Philadelphia to which he moved later.

On the 12th April 1788 he sailed for
2 CONC Barbados, where he suffered recurring fevers and finally returned to England about June 1789,
2 CONC with his health broken and little or nothing achieved. His old friends rallied to his
2 CONC assistance and by their influence he obtained a post in Customs as second assistant to the
2 CONC Surveyor of the King's Warehouse in the Port of London from 16 Dec 1791. Again in July 1794,
2 CONC his friends Hardwicke and Abercorn came to his help and he was appointed to a better post as
2 CONC Controller of the Exchequer Bill Pay Office. He still held this post on 25 Aug 1812. In 1796
2 CONC he resided at Bench Buildings, Inner Temple.

Walter Pollard left a vast corresponence
2 CONC which his friend Philip Yorke, afterwards 3rd Lord Hardwicke, preserved among the Hardwicke
2 CONC MSS., now at the British Museum. These are numbered 35655 and 35656 and cover the period
2 CONC 1771 - 1812.

In his last letter he mentions a daughter "threatened by most fatal
2 CONC consequences" and in his Will he mentions a son Edward and his wife Mary. His will
2 CONC ((Ellenbro' 36) is signed Walter Pollard, Chelsea, Kings Parade, dated 13 Feb 1818 and proved
2 CONC 20 Jan 1819.

Abstract from his will:-"I give to my said wife such of my furniture as she
2 CONC may find convenient, the rest of my effects, my good books, are to be sold except such as may
2 CONC serviceable to my son Edward for his education, and of that money arising from the sale and of
2 CONC whatever I may be worth at my death, one third I leave to my wife and the remainder to my son
2 CONC Edward Pollard." Proved at London by the oath of Mary Pollard, Widow.
1 SOUR Calendar of Inner Temple REcords, Vol. V, 1751-1800

2 CONC Eton and Harrow School Registers.

2 CONC Harrow by P.H.M.Bryant.

2 CONC Venn's Alumni Cantab.

2 CONC The Gentleman's Magazine, 1825, I. 367.
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