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Name: POLLOK, FitzWilliam Thomas (Col.)

Birth Date: 19.10.1832 India

Death Date: 12.11.1909 Dover

Nationality: British

First Date: 1889

Last Date: 1890

Profession: IBEA Co. General Africa Staff - appointed 8th March 1889.

Married: 1. In Calcutta 22 Jan 1859 Agnes Paterson Campbell b. 17 June 1939 Calcutta, d. 14 June 1864 Ootacamund, India 2. In Barnes, Surrey 26 Sep 1866 Emilie Ann Rothes Leslie b. 26 Sep 1844 London, d. 25 Oct 1931 Malta

Children: 1. William Douglas (4 Nov 1859 Bengal-7 July 1868 Richmond, Surrey); Agnes Constance (22 Dec 1860 Tonghoo, Myanmar-1888 India); Edward Thomas (21 Mar 1862 Myanmar-22 Feb 1911 Vancouver) 2. Mabel Caroline (18 Mar 1868 Gowatty, India-30 Nov 1895); Douglas Leslie (28 Aug 1869 Shillong, India-14 Apr 1878); Henry (1871 India); Hew Crawford (11 Feb 1871 Assam-9 Feb 1940 Brazil); Gertrude Mary (3 Aug 1872 Shillong, India-10 Apr 1942); William Henry (1882 Drogheda-26 May 1951 Newcastle upon Tyne); Herbert Charles (13 Apr 1889 London-30 Dec 1968 Poole);

Book Reference: EAHB 1905, North, IBEA, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1904, Chandler

General Information:

North - recruited 82 men in India to work for Company as sappers arr. Mombasa Feb 1890; In disagreement with G. Mackenzie & J. Pigott, 'Mackenzie's factotum' (Pollok, ZA) over their conditions of employment. Men not sappers as requested 'but cooks, cooks-mates, pork butchers, waiters in soldiers' messes, snake charmers, common coolies and such like common riff raff of the ordinary Indian Bazaar' (Mackenzie, ZA) 9/3/1890; resigned at Mombasa 'late IBEA Co.' 17/3/1890; dep. Mombasa for England 26/3/1890

Chandler - A schoolmate of Charles Gordon, Pollok served for many years in India as an officer of the Madras Staff Corps. He married Agnes Campbell in 1859. Pollok was a prolific hunter …………….

North - From Farnham, Hants but resident in the Azores, offered temp. employment with IBEA Co. to recruit sappers in India; Retd. from British Army as Lieut.-Col. 14/9/1878

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