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Sir Robert Pollock, 1st Baronet

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Maxwell) Cathcart, widow of John Cathcart of Carleton, Ayr, and daughter of Sir George Maxwell, of Nether Pollock, Renfrew. She died without issue before 15 May 1691. He married, secondly, Annabella Stewart, daughter of Walter Stewart, of Pardovan, Linlithgow. He completely demolished
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In 1689 Pollock was a lieutenant in an independent troop of horse. He was a captain in the 7th Dragoons by April 1690 and a major of foot in Lord Murray’s regiment from 1694 until 1698 when he went onto half-pay. In 1700 he was elected to the
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Pollock was the eldest son of Robert Pollock of Pollok and his second wife, Jean Crawford, daughter of Cornelius Crawford of Jordanhill, Renfrewshire. He succeeded his father who died in 1673. He was educated at Glasgow in 1679.
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Sir Robert died on 22 August 1735. His second son, Walter, had a son Robert who succeeded by to the baronetcy, but with whose death, in 1783, the baronetcy became extinct.
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At the Union in 1707 Pollock became a representative of Scotland in the first Great Britain Parliament. He had difficulty finding a seat at the
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on 30 November 1703 and became a major of Dragoons in the Earl of Hyndford’s regiment under the first and second Earl until 1710.
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and rebuilt it as a large stately house in 1686. He had four sons whom he outlived and three daughters, including:
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Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was grandfather of James A. Hamilton (1718–1799) and great-grandfather of
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A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies
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He married firstly by contract dated 25/30 January 1686, Annabella (
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Complete Baronetage: English, Irish and Scottish, 1665-1707
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John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke, Bernard Burke (1841).
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Walter Pollock, who became father of the 2nd baronet.
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Member of Parliament
Renfrewshire
Sir John Shaw
Thomas Cochrane
Pollock Castle
Pollok
Parliament of Scotland
British House of Commons
Parliament of Scotland
Shire Commissioner
Renfrewshire
Union
baronet
1708 general election
Linlithgow Burghs
1710 general election
Member of Parliament
Renfrewshire
1713 general election
1715 general election
1722 general election
née
Pollock Castle
Laird
Grange
Alexander Hamilton
Secretary of the Treasury
United States

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