David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth

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

The Right Honourable The Viscount Hanworth
Official parliamentary portrait
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office 23 October 1996 – 11 November 1999 as a hereditary peer
Preceded by	The 2nd Viscount Hanworth
Succeeded by	Seat abolished [a]
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 January 2011 as an elected hereditary peer
Preceded by	The 11th Baron Strabolgi
Personal details
Born	David Stephen Geoffrey Pollock (1946-02-16) 16 February 1946 (age 79)
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Elizabeth Vambe
Children	2
Alma mater	Wellington College University of Sussex (DPhil)
Other titles	3rd Baron Hanworth 3rd Baronet

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 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 the holder one of the 90 places which remain based on heredity.^[3][4]

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)^[5]

As they have no sons, Lord Hanworth's titles are expected to pass to a nephew.

Arms

Coat of arms of David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth

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]

Notes

1. Pursuant to the House of Lords Act 1999.