Pollock, F. (Frederick), 1783-1870

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Photography

found: A letter to Sir F. Pollock, Her Majesty's Attorney General ... on the subject of local courts, 1843.

found: Rules of the Photographic Society Club, 1856:leaf 5 recto (list of club members, beginning with "President: The Right Hon. Sir Frederick Pollock, F.R.S., Lord Chief Baron")

found: Seiberling, Grace. Amateurs, photography and the Victorian imagination, 1986:page 142 (in Biographical appendix, by Carolyn Bloore: the Right Honorable Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock, P.C., Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer; Baron Pollock; active as a photographer; father of Photographic Society Club members Arthur Julius Pollock and his half-brother Henry Alexander Radclyffe Pollock, and a club member (and club president) himself)

found: Oxford DNB, June 3, 2014(Pollock, Sir (Jonathan) Frederick, first baronet (1783-1870), judge; born London, 22 or 23 September 1783; Frederick (as he was always known) graduated BA in 1806 and MA in 1809 from Trinity College, Cambridge; commissary to the university from 1824 to 1835; entered the Middle Temple on 5 October 1802 and was called to the bar on 27 November 1807; admitted to the Inner Temple on 16 November 1824, and a bencher of his own inn from 22 November 1827; took silk [became King's Counsel] on 12 June 1827 and was added to the royal commission on the common-law courts on 10 March 1831; on 2 May 1831, became a tory member of Parliament for Huntingdon, which he defended in 1832 and for which he was returned unopposed at four subsequent elections; knighted on 29 December 1834 on accepting the office of attorney-general in Sir Robert Peel's first administration, to 1835; resumed the same office in Peel's second administration from 6 September 1841; become lord chief baron of the Exchequer on 15 April 1844 and was made a serjeant on 18 April; retired on 12 July 1866 and received a baronetcy on 24 July; moved to Hatton, Middlesex, and resumed the studies of his youth; elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1816; also FSA and FGS and a member of the council of the London Photographic Society; died at Hatton on 23 August 1870)