Court official, solicitor, barrister. (b.10/3/1829). Attorney of the Supreme Court, New South Wales, Australia. Admitted to the Middle Temple (1/24/1855); called to the bar (Easter Term 4/30/1858). Member of the South-eastern Circuit Court, England. Also practiced in Shanghai and Singapore while residing in Hong Kong.
HONG KONG. Court official, articled clerk, barrister, solicitor, notary public, Queen's Counsel (Hong Kong's first Queen's Counsel).
Arrived Hong Kong (9//1847). Judge's clerk. articled clerk to Norcott D'Esterre Parker, solicitor (3//1848). Solicitor (admitted 1/23/1850 for three months, renewed thereafter each for three months until 9/6/1853); practice wound up 12/6/1853. Admitted to the Middle Temple (1/24/1855); called to the bar (Easter Term 1858). Barrister (admitted 1859/4/14), Practiced as barrister, solicitor and notary public; solely as barrister (after 1/4/1865). Legal advisor of Thomas Sutherland, Hong Kong Superintendent, Peninsula & Orient Steam Navigation Company, also founder of the Hong Kong Banking Company; instrumental in the formation of the HSBC Provisional Committee (1864), and the establishment of bank (1865). Queen's Counsel (3/9/1865, confirmed by Queen 7/26/1865). Acting Attorney General, including seats at the Legislative and Executive Councils (1869/7/22, vice Julian Pauncrfote, appointed acting Chief Justice). Trustee of the St. John's Cathedral (1867). President, Hong Kong Choral Society (1868). Committee, Hong Kong Club (1868). Member, Hong Kong Cricket Club. Played in the Hong Kong Cricket Team (1865/66). Addresses: Queen's Road (1850). Residence: Zephyr Lodge (1861); Castle Road (1868).
Arrived Hong Kong (9//1847). Judge's clerk. articled clerk to Norcott D'Esterre Parker, solicitor (3//1848). Solicitor (admitted 1/23/1850 for three months, renewed thereafter each for three months until 9/6/1853); practice wound up 12/6/1853. Admitted to the Middle Temple (1/24/1855); called to the bar (Easter Term 1858). Barrister (admitted 1859/4/14), Practiced as barrister, solicitor and notary public; solely as barrister (after 1/4/1865). Legal advisor of Thomas Sutherland, Hong Kong Superintendent, Peninsula & Orient Steam Navigation Company, also founder of the Hong Kong Banking Company; instrumental in the formation of the HSBC Provisional Committee (1864), and the establishment of bank (1865). Queen's Counsel (3/9/1865, confirmed by Queen 7/26/1865). Acting Attorney General, including seats at the Legislative and Executive Councils (1869/7/22, vice Julian Pauncrfote, appointed acting Chief Justice). Trustee of the St. John's Cathedral (1867). President, Hong Kong Choral Society (1868). Committee, Hong Kong Club (1868). Member, Hong Kong Cricket Club. Played in the Hong Kong Cricket Team (1865/66). Addresses: Queen's Road (1850). Residence: Zephyr Lodge (1861); Castle Road (1868).
Eldest s/o Edward Hutchinson Pollard (b.4/8/1795, Newcastle - d.9/5/1878, Queensland, Australia ), of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England; sometime Sydney, Australia, and Ann Bell (b.1801, Newcastle – d.1/14/1857, Sydney, Australia)(married 8/24/1831, St. John's Church, Newcastle). Pollard Sr., a corn merchant, dealer and chapman, was adjudged bankrupt (1832/6/19). He died in Queensland, Australia (9/5/1878). b/o Charles Paget Pollard (b.1831-d.1841), Clara Pollard (b.1831-d.1886), Joseph Atkinson Pollard (b.1833-d.1888), Ellen Rosina Pollard (b.1834-d.Ukn.), Allen Ferrier Pollard (b.1840-d.1841), Thomas Pollard (b.1841-d.Ukn.), Anna Pollard (b.1842-d.Ukn.), Fanny Pollard (b.1843-d.Ukn.), William Pollard (b.1844-d.Ukn.), Rossanna Mary Pollard (b.1846-d.Ukn.), and Frank Henry Pollard (b.1847-d.1847).
- Pollard was pronounced guilty of grave contempt of the Supreme Court by Chief Justice John Jackson Smale on July 2, 1867 for six several offenses Smale adjudged him of committing at the civil proceedings of Olyphant & Co., versus Loo Ahung. Throughout the three-day trial that commenced on June 27, 1867, Pollard, being counsel for Olyphant, had had several unpleasant exchanges with Smale, the presiding judge, but was never informed that his manner was thought to be disrespectful. The baffled Pollard was fined $200 and was suspended from practicing for a period of 14 days unless and until he paid up the fine. Having his repeated appeals denied by Smale, Pollard petitioned the Queen on July 16, 1867. His petition was forwarded to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council for its review on November 4, 1867. The case was heard by the Committee in London at which Pollard and Smale were represented by their respective counsels. The Committee ruled on June 16, 1868 in favor of Pollard and reversed Smale's sentence on the basis that Smales failed to state a distinct charge on each of the offenses in Pollard's presence; Pollard was not given the opportunity to answer any of the charges; none of the alleged six several offenses amounted to a contempt of Court. The Queen, on June 19, 1868, with the advise of the Privy Council, ordered the fine to be remitted.
- Pollard's wife was the partner of Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh, for the second dance, which was a waltz, at the ball given at the City Hall in honor of the second son of Queen Victoria in the evening of November 4, 1869. For the opening dance, her partner was the colonial governor, Richard Graves MacDonnell. Prince Alfred was the first member of the British Royal family to visit Hong Kong.
- Pollard's sister, Rossanna Mary, married John Graham Anderson, who worked for the Canton (and later Hong Kong) based opium firm, Dent & Co. Anderson's Chinese protected (kept) woman produced an illegitimate son Hung Kam Ning 洪錦寧 (a.k.a. Henry Graham Anderson). Hung's grandson, Donald Anderson, became Hong Kong's first Eurasian barrister.
Selected bibliography: ancestry [online]. Anglochinese Calendar for the Year 1845, Canton: The Chinese Repository, 1845. Biographical Dictionary of Residents of Hong Kong, the First Ten Years (1841-1850) [online]. China Directory for 1861, Hong Kong: A. Shortrede & Co., 1861. Cricket Archive [online]. The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Sian, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Daily Press, 1868. Elwick, George, The Bankrupt Directory, &c: From December 1820 to April 1843, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1843, p.326. Foster, Joseph, Men at the Bar: A Biographical Hand-list of Members of the Various Inns of Court, London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney, Ltd., 1885, p.370. geni [online]. Genuki [online]. Hong Kong Daily Press, August 13, 1868, p.2, Judicial Committee of Privy Council, in the Matter of the Petition of Edward H. Pollard; November 5, 1869, p.2, Ball in Honor of H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh. Hong Kong's First, The Sutherland Thirteen [online]. Hong Kong Government Gazette, March 11, 1865, #37; April 27, 1867, #67; July 24, 1869, #64. http://archive.middletemple.org.uk [online]. Pollard, Edward, Hutchinson, Petition for the reversal of the sentence passed on Mr. Pollard, Q.C. [for contempt of court], by the Hon. Mr. Smale, Chief-Justice of Hongkong. Affidavits in support, newspaper reports, ... leading articles, etc., Hong Kong: Daily Press, 1867. [This is a good read; I higly recommend it.] Teng, Emma Jinhua, Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842–1943, California: University of California Press, 2013, p.224. Wolfendale, Stuart, Imperial to International, A History of St. John's Cathedral Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013, p.61.
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