Biography of Hugh Pollard 2nd Baronet 1603-1666

On 28th April 1599 Francis Norreys 1st Earl Berkshire (age 19) and [his future wife] Bridget Vere Baroness Norreys Rycote (age 15) were married. She the daughter of Edward de Vere 17th Earl of Oxford (age 49) and Anne Cecil Countess of Oxford. He the son of William Norreys and Elizabeth Morrison Countess Lincoln. They were fifth cousin once removed.

In or before 1603 [his father] Lewis Pollard 1st Baronet and [his mother] Margaret Berkeley were married.

In 1603 Hugh Pollard 2nd Baronet was born to Lewis Pollard 1st Baronet and Margaret Berkeley.

Before 1631 Hugh Pollard 2nd Baronet (age 27) and Bridget Vere Baroness Norreys Rycote (age 46) were married. She the daughter of Edward de Vere 17th Earl of Oxford and Anne Cecil Countess of Oxford. They were second cousin twice removed.

Around January 1631 [his wife] Bridget Vere Baroness Norreys Rycote (age 46) died. She was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].

In 1641 [his father] Lewis Pollard 1st Baronet died. His son Hugh (age 38) succeeded 2nd Baronet Pollard of King's Knympton in Devon.

Before 1647 Henry Rolle of Beam (age 41) and [his future wife] Mary Stevens (age 27) were married.

After 1647 Hugh Pollard 2nd Baronet (age 44) and Mary Stevens (age 28) were married.

In 1653 Hugh Pollard 2nd Baronet (age 50) was fined £518 for his "deliquency" i.e. being a Royalist, which fine is likely the reason he sold the manor of King's Nympton, Devon to Arthur Northcote 2nd Baronet (age 25).

John Evelyn's Diary. 20th November 1662. Dined with the Comptroller, Sir Hugh Pollard (age 59); afterward saw "The Young Admiral" acted before the King (age 32).

John Evelyn's Diary. 27th November 1666. Sir Hugh Pollard (age 63), Comptroller of the Household, died at Whitehall [Map], and his Majesty (age 36) conferred the white staff on my brother Commissioner for sick and wounded, Sir Thomas Clifford (age 36), a bold young gentleman, of a small fortune in Devon, but advanced by Lord Arlington (age 48), Secretary of State, to the great astonishment of all the Court. This gentleman was somewhat related to me by the marriage of his mother to my nearest kinsman, Gregory Coale, and was ever my noble friend, a valiant and daring person, but by no means fit for a supple and flattering courtier.

On 27th November 1666 Hugh Pollard 2nd Baronet (age 63) died at Whitehall Palace [Map]. His brother [his brother] Amyas (age 50) succeeded 3rd Baronet Pollard of King's Knympton in Devon.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 29th November 1666. "I doubt not of your lordship's hearing of Sir Thomas Clifford's (age 36) succeeding Sir H. Pollard (deceased) in the Comptrollership of the King's house but perhaps our ill, but confirmed, tidings from the Barbadoes may not [have reached you] yet, it coming but yesterday; viz., that about eleven ships, whereof two of the King's, the Hope and Coventry, going thence with men to attack St. Christopher's, were seized by a violent hurricane, and all sunk-two only of thirteen escaping, and those with loss of masts, &c. My Lord Willoughby himself is involved in the disaster, and I think two ships thrown upon an island of the French, and so all the men, to 500, become their prisoners. 'Tis said, too, that eighteen Dutch men-of-war are passed the Channell, in order to meet with our Smyrna ships; and some, I hear, do fright us with the King of Sweden's (age 11) seizing our mast-ships at Gottenburgh. But we have too much ill newes true, to afflict ourselves with what is uncertain. That which I hear from Scotland is, the Duke of York's (age 33) saying, yesterday, that he is confident the Lieutenant-Generall there hath driven them into a pound, somewhere towards the mountains".

In 1669 [his former wife] Mary Stevens (age 50) died.

[his daughter] Bridget Pollard was born to Hugh Pollard 2nd Baronet and Bridget Vere Baroness Norreys Rycote.