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James Pollock (Northern Ireland politician)

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Died
  
1982

Party
  
Ulster Unionist Party

Education
  
The Royal School, Armagh

Captain Sir James Huey Hamill Pollock, CMG OBE KStJ (1893–14 March 1982), also known as Shamus Pollock, was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Pollock studied at the Royal School, Armagh and the University of Leeds. During the First World War he served as a Lieutenant, Captain, and Major in the 6th Royal Irish Rifles. He then joined the Colonial Service, spending many years in British Palestine, including service as District Officer in Ramallah and District Commissioner for Jerusalem.

He retired in 1954, and was immediately elected an Ulster Unionist Party member of the Senate of Northern Ireland, serving until 1957.

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