Pocock, Thomas Allcot Guy, son of Guy Noel Pocock, novelist and BBC ed., and Dorothy Allcot, d. of Rt. Rev. John Phillips Allcot Bowers DD, Bishop of Thetford; b. 18 Aug. 1925; adm. Sept. 1938 (G); left July 1939; small ships and war correspondent in WW2; a journalist and author; foreign correspondent Hulton Press 1944-8; naval correspondent Daily Mail 1950-3, The Times 1953-6; Daily Express staff 1956-8; defence correspondent, Evening Standard 1959-73; travel editor, Evening Standard 1973-82; self-employed author & journalist; author, many books on naval history; d. 7 May 2007.

POCOCKE, ROBERT, son of Rev. Edward Pococke DD, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Hebrew, Oxford Univ., and Mary, dau. of Thomas Burdet, West Worldham, Hampshire; bapt. Childrey, Berks., 15 May 1657 (IGI); adm.; KS 1671; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 May 1673, aged 15, Canoneer Student 25 Jul 1673 – void 1701; BA 6 Feb 1676/7; MA 1679; ordained deacon (Oxford) 6 Jun 1680; perhaps living Long Ditton, Surrey, in 1691. [will of Rev. Robert Pocock, Rector of Long Ditton, Surrey, proved PCC 3 Aug 1714]

POINTELL, DANIEL, son of Edward Pointell, Chislehurst, Kent, and Judith, dau. of Daniel Shettenden; bapt. 30 Nov 1623; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1641, adm. pens. 22 Jun 1641, scholar 1642, matr. Easter 1642; BA 1644/5; MA 1648; Rector of Staplehurst, Kent 1648 – Aug 1662, when ejected for refusal to conform; established an Independent congregation there (licensed as Presbyterian minister 10 Aug 1672); m. 8 Nov 1653 Mary, dau. of Ninian Butcher, St. Mary Aldermanbury, London; buried Staplehurst, Kent 12 Jun 1674.

POLAND, ERNEST, youngest son of Richard Henry Poland, Eliot Vale, Blackheath, Kent, fur merchant, and Harriet, dau. of John Allan, Whitby, Yorks.; b. 7 Jul 1862; adm. 26 Apr 1876 (H, G); left Aug 1881; fur and skin merchant, firm P. R. Poland & Son, Queen Victoria Street, London; one of the founders and Vice-Presidents, London Fur Trade Association, and a well-known authority on furs; Technical Adviser to British Government for Pelagic Fur Sealing Treaty, 1911; m. 26 Jun 1888 Edith Jane Sophia, dau. of Percy Moses Parsons, Blackheath, Kent; d. 31 Jan 1932.

Poland, Raymond Denham, son of John Poland, F.R.C.S., of St. Marylebone, by Mary Roberts, daughter of James G. Denham, of Edinburgh; b. Nov. 11, 1887; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (H); left Easter 1905; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. London Regt. July 19, 1916; Lieut. Jan. 19, 1918; d. Oct. 14, 1947.

POLE, EVAN WILLIAMS, youngest son of William Pole MICE MusDoc FRS, Westminster, civil engineer, and Matilda, youngest dau. of Rev. Henry Gauntlett, Vicar of Olney, Bucks.; b. 4 Jul 1859; adm. 22 Sep 1870; QS 1874; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1878, matr. 11 Oct 1878; BA 1882; MA 1885; ordained 1892; Assistant Master, King Edward VI School, Louth, Lincs., 1882-4, Bradfield Coll. 1885-95, Dulwich Coll. 1897-8; a violinist; m. 14 Oct 1908 Laura Elizabeth, second dau. of James Weston, Lutton, Northants; d. Dec 1930.

POLE, GERMAN, son of German Pole, Conduit Street, London, and his second wife Mary, dau. of Robert Gayer, Stoke Poges, Bucks.; b.; adm. (aged 11) Mar 1739/40 (Hutton's); St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 11 Feb 1747; d. unm. 17 Mar 1765.

POLHILL, JOHN BOSANQUET, son of Rev. Robert Polhill, Vicar of Goudhurst, Kent, and Mellicent ---; bapt. Goudhurst 23 Oct 1771; adm. 13 Jan 1785; KS (aged 13) 1785; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1790, adm. pens. 8 Jun 1790 [check], scholar 6 May 1791; BA 1794; MA 1797; Whitehall Preacher 1799; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1796, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1797; ordained deacon (lit. dim. from Canterbury) 1794, priest (Winchester) 12 Mar 1797; Curate, Goudhurst, Kent 1794, Worplesdon, Surrey 1797; Rector of Hadleigh, Essex, from 17 May 1802; Chaplain to HRH Duke of York; m. Eliza, only dau. of Walter Barton May, Hadlow Castle, Kent; d. 1825 (will proved PCC 21 Apr 1825).

POLLARD, GEORGE EDWARD, eldest son of Edward William Pollard MRCS LSA, Brompton Square, London, and his second wife Emma Louise, eldest dau. of George Edward Thompson, Woodbridge, Suffolk, shipowner; grandson of Robert Blemell Pollard (qv); b. 30 Jun 1852; adm. 15 Jun 1865; QS 1868; left Dec 1868; St. George’s Hospital; LSA 1879; LRCP Edinburgh and LM 1880; LRCS Edinburgh 1880; medical practitioner at Corby, Lincs.; d. 11 Mar 1883.

Pollard, Hugh Bertie Campbell, only son of Joseph Pollard, M.R.C.S., of St. Marylebone, by Helen Dora Colebrook, daughter of Frederick Hendricks, F.F.A., F.S.A., of Kensington; b. Jan. 6, 1884; adm. Sept. 30, 1897 (R); left Dec. 1903; 2nd Lieut. 25th Cyclist Batt. London Regt. May 9, 1912; Lieut. Nov. 6, 1914; Capt. June 1, 1916; special correspondent of the Daily Express 1912-20; Staff Officer (Intelligence) War Office 1916-18; at the Irish Office 1920-2; sporting editor of Country Life 1922; an authority on ancient and modern fire-arms; admitted to the Middle Temple Oct. 24, 1918; Major, General Staff (War Office) 1940; Chevalier, Imperial Order, Red Arrows of Spain; author of The Secret Societies of Ireland (1922) and other works; m. 1914 Ruth Marie, daughter of Francis Gibbons, of Penn Hall, Staffs.; d. Mar. 1966.