David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth

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Member of the House of Lords
as a hereditary peer
23 October 1996 11 November 1999

David Stephen Geoffrey Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth (born 16 February 1946), is a British professor and a Labour elected hereditary peer.

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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. [1]

Background

A great-grandson of Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, a former Master of the Rolls, Hanworth succeeded to the viscountcy (and baronetcy) 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. [2] 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 one of the 90 places which remain based on heredity. [3] [4]

Personal life

In 1968, he married Elizabeth Liberty, daughter of the writer and journalist Lawrence Vambe MBE. They live in London. The title is expected to pass to a nephew as they have two daughters:

Arms

Coat of arms of David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth
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Crest
A Boar passant quarterly Or and Vert pierced through the sinister shoulder with an Arrow proper
Escutcheon
Azure three Fleurs-de-lis within a Bordure engrailed Or on a Chief Ermine two Portcullises of the second
Supporters
On either side a Bear Or muzzled collared and chained Sable
Motto
Audacter Et Strenue (Boldly and strenuously) [6]

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References

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  5. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1770
  6. Debrett's Peerage. 1973.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Hanworth
1996–present
Member of the House of Lords
(1996–1999)
Incumbent
Heir presumptive:
Harold Pollock
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under the House of Lords Act 1999
2011–present
Incumbent