David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth
{{Short description|British econometrician and peer (born 1946)}}
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| office1 = Member of the House of Lords
| status1 = Lord Temporal
| term_start1 = 23 October 1996
| predecessor1 = The 2nd Viscount Hanworth
| term_end1 = 11 November 1999
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| term_start2 = 30 January 2011
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| predecessor2 = The 11th Baron Strabolgi
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| birth_name = David Stephen Geoffrey Pollock
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| nationality = British
| party = Labour
| spouse = Elizabeth Vambe
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David Stephen Geoffrey Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth (born 16 February 1946), is a British professor and a Labour elected hereditary peer.
Hanworth was educated at Wellington College and has taken a DPhil degree at the University of Sussex. He is currently Professor of Econometrics and Computational Statistics at the University of Leicester, where he lectures in Mathematical Statistics, Econometrics and Environmental Sciences.{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-information-office/holnotice-20110307-byelection.pdf |title=House of Lords By-election March 2011 - Candidature Statements |access-date=27 March 2011}}
Background
A great-grandson of Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, a former Master of the Rolls, Hanworth succeeded to the viscountcy upon his father's death in 1996 and took his seat in the House of Lords until the House of Lords Act in 1999 removed his automatic right to sit in Parliament. He chose not to stand in the election by Labour hereditary peers to select two of their number to remain in Parliament after this Act came into force.{{Cite web |url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/lords.html |title=United Kingdom Election Results - House of Lords Act: Hereditary Peers Elections (scroll down page to section headed 'Labour') |access-date=27 March 2011 |archive-date=21 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121193747/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/lords.html |url-status=dead}} Hanworth stood but was unsuccessful in the by-election caused by the death of Lord Milner in 2003. Willing to work in the Lords still, in 2011 he won the cross-house hereditary by-election to become one of fifteen 'deputy speakers', following the death of Lord Strabolgi, who was also Labour. He was therefore appointed/elected on the all hereditary-peer eligibility basis following a death of the holder one of the 90 places which remain based on heredity.{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-information-office/hol-byelection-20110323.pdf |title=Results: Hereditary Peers' By-election, March 2011 |access-date=27 March 2011}}{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/node/18443539?story_id=18443539&fsrc=rss |title=The Economist - Democracy in action The House of Lords stages the oddest of elections |access-date=27 March 2011 |date=24 March 2011}}
Personal life
In 1968, he married Elizabeth Liberty Vambe, daughter of writer and journalist Lawrence Vambe. They live in London and have two daughters:
- Hon. Cecile Pollock (born 1971)
- Hon. Charlotte Pollock (born 1973)Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1770.
As they have no sons, Lord Hanworth's titles are expected to pass to a nephew.
Arms
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|escutcheon = Azure three Fleurs-de-lis within a Bordure engrailed Or on a Chief Ermine two Portcullises of the second
|crest = A Boar passant quarterly Or and Vert pierced through the sinister shoulder with an Arrow proper
|supporters = On either side a Bear Or muzzled collared and chained Sable
|motto = Audacter Et Strenue (Boldly and strenuously) {{cite book |title=Debrett's Peerage |date=1973}}}}
Notes
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External links
- {{Hansard-contribs | mr-david-pollock | the Viscount Hanworth }}
- [http://www.debretts.co.uk/people/biographies/browse/h/165/(David)%20Stephen%20Geoffrey%20Pollock+HANWORTH.aspx Debrett's People of Today] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927025058/http://www.debretts.co.uk/people/biographies/browse/h/165/(David)%20Stephen%20Geoffrey%20Pollock+HANWORTH.aspx |date=2011-09-27 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110221132158/http://www.le.ac.uk/ec/staff/dsgp1.html University of Leicester staff page]
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Category:English people of Scottish descent
Category:People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire
Category:Alumni of the University of Sussex
Category:Academics of the University of Leicester
Category:Fellows of the Econometric Society
Category:Labour Party (UK) hereditary peers