Benjamin Pollard

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Benjamin Pollard when Rector of St Chrysostom's, Manchester

Benjamin Pollard TD (12 September 1890 – 11 April 1967[1]) was an Anglican bishop.

Pollard and educated at Manchester Grammar School and the Victoria University of Manchester.[2] He was ordained in 1914 and was a chaplain during World War I with the British Armed Forces. After this he became the Precentor of Sheffield Cathedral and then Rector of Bradfield[disambiguation needed]. From 1924 to 1928 he was Rector of St Chrysostom's Victoria Park, Manchester and then began a long association with the Lancaster area.[3] He was Vicar for eight years and, in his last years there, an archdeacon before his ordination to the episcopate as the first Bishop of Lancaster.[4] He was translated to be the Bishop of Sodor and Man in 1954.[5] He retired in 1966 and died the following year.

References

  1. "Rt Rev B Pollard: Former Bishop of Sodor and Man", The Times, 12 April 1967, p12
  2. Who's Who 1992 (London, A & C Black ISBN 0-7136-3514-2)
  3. lancaster Priory time-line
  4. "Two New Bishops: Lancaster And Eastern Szechwan", The Times, 1 August 1936, p9
  5. "Ecclesiastical News: New Bishop Of Sodor And Man", The Times, 21 September 1954, p10
Religious titles
Preceded by
Inaugural appointment
Anglican Bishop of Lancaster
1936–1954
Succeeded by
Anthony Leigh Egerton Hoskyns-Abrahall
Preceded by Bishop of Sodor and Man
1954–1966
Succeeded by
George Eric Gordon

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