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About Lewis Pollard
Sir Lewis Pollard whose will was dated 1526 when he retired to Grilstone in the parish of Bishop's Nympton, Devon, was Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526. He served as MP for Totnes in 1491 and was a JP in Devon in 1492. He was knighted after 1509. He was one of several Devonshire men to be "innated with a genius to study law", as identified by Fuller, who became eminent lawyers at a national level. He was a kinsman of the judge and Speaker of the House of Commons Sir John Pollard.
Everything about Lewis Pollard →- Occupation
- judge
- Position held
- Member of the 1491-92 Parliament
- Born
- 1485
- Died
- October 21, 1526, 1525