Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet
- Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet
Infobox MP
honorific-prefix = Sir
name = Frederick Pollock
honorific-suffix = 1st Baronet PC
caption = Frederick Pollock
constituency_MP = Huntingdon
parliament = United Kingdom
term_start = 1831
term_end = 1844
birth_date = birth date|1783|9|23
birth_place = Charing Cross, London
death_date = death date and age|1870|8|28|1783|9|23
alma_mater = University of Cambridge
party = Tory Party
Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet PC (23 September 1783 – 28 August 1870), was a British lawyer and Tory politician.
The son of David Pollock, of Charing Cross, London, Pollock was Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon from 1831 to 1844. He served as Attorney General between 1834 and 1835 and 1841 and 1844 in the Tory administrations of Sir Robert Peel. In 1841 he was admitted to the Privy Council and appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, a post he held until 1868. Pollock was created a Baronet, of Hatton in the County of Middlesex, in 1866. He died in August 1870, aged 84, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son William Frederick Pollock.
Pollock was the elder brother of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet. Two of his grandsons also became prominent lawyers. Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet, was Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University and Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, served as Master of the Rolls.Pollock was Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816. He contributed a number of papers in mathematics to the Royal Society, including one on what is now known as the "Pollock octahedral numbers conjecture".
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