John Pollen 1702?-1775
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John POLLEN 1702?-1775
Biographical Note
Younger son of John Pollen of Andover, MP. Matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford 1719, but did not graduate; he was admitted at Lincoln's Inn 1718 (barrister, 1726). He was MP for 1734-54 and became a circuit judge in Wales in 1742 (chief justice of the circuit, 1753).
Books
Pollen used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 23773). The extent of his library is not known; in his brief will, he left most of his goods and property to his son John.
Sources
- Will of John Pollen, the National Archives PROB 11/1016/237.
- History of Parliament.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903-4.