▶Date of birth:  1830        Place of birth: London

▶Father: John Pollock      Mother:  [uncertain]

▶Spouse(s):  (1) Angelina Krause; (2) Eliza Ann Dyas     Date(s) of marriage:  (1) 23 January 1855; (2) 15 November 1864    Place(s) of marriage:  (1) St Mary’s Church, Dublin; (2) All Souls Church, Langham, Marylebone

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: William James Pollock lived in Pittville around 1860, while he served as a Curate of St Mary’s Church. He was born in London in 1830, the son of John Pollock, of London, and was educated at Trinity College Dublin, BA 1853. He took holy orders and was ordained Deacon in 1854, and Priest (both Chester) in 1855. In 1854 he was licensed Curate of  Bootle, Lancashire, and in 1856 became Curate of St Matthias’s Church, Salford. He married Angelina Krause in Dublin in 1855; the couple had two sons and two daughters.

The family then moved south when William took up a post as Curate of St Mary’s, Cheltenham 1857-60; Edward Walker (Francis Close’s predecessor) had been the Incumbent of Salford, and Pollock accompanied him to Cheltenham. In 1859-60 the Cheltenham Annuaire recorded that he lived at 3 Pittville Villas (now 62 Prestbury Road); his son, William H. K. Pollock, born in Cheltenham, was a noted chess player. After living in Cheltenham for a while he was appointed Incumbent of St Peter’s English Episcopal Church, Montrose 1860-2.

After the death of his first wife in 1863, Pollock married again in the following year, to her cousin Eliza Ann Dyas (they had one further child). In 1864 he was also incorporated at Wadham College, Oxford, receiving his MA from the University that year. In 1864 he accepted the appointment of Curate of Crosthwaite, Westmorland, and by 1871 lived as a clergyman without cure of souls in Tormonham, Devon, with his wife and four children. Between 1872-6 he served as Rector of St Saviour’s, Bath. He stayed in the West Country, living in Walcot, Bath with his family at the time of the 1881 census, and in Clifton in 1891, Bristol in 1901, and back at Clifton, at Gordon House, in 1911.

Pollock died at home in Clifton in 1919. His estate at death was sworn at just over £5,800.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Salford, Lancashire      Moved from Pittville to: Crosthwaite, Westmorland

▶Date of death:   1919     Place of death: Gordon House, Clifton

▶Date of burial:         Place of burial:

▶Notes:        ID: 8289

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden