Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth

Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth

Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth KBE PC KC (25 November 1861–22 October 1936) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) and Master of the Rolls.

He was the MP for Warwick and Leamington from 1910 to 1923. In 1919, under David Lloyd George, he was appointed Solicitor General and remained this until 1922, when he became Attorney General, but left this post the same year. He left the House of Commons at the 1923 general election, and was replaced in his seat by Anthony Eden. He was appointed to the Privy Council in the 1922 New Year Honours. [LondonGazette |issue=32563 |date=30 December 1921 |startpage=10709 |supp=yes] He was also a baronet.

Pollock was Master of the Rolls from 1923 to 1935. On 28 January 1926, he elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Hanworth, and was raised as Viscount Hanworth on 17 January 1936. He died later in 1936 aged 74.

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*Dictionary of National Biography: Pollock, Ernest Murray
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