John Pollock

POLLOCK, John. b. Glasgow, Scotland, 27 October 1852; d. Belfast, Northern Ireland, 4 January 1935. The son of Janet, née Riddell, and Alexander Pollock, a grocer and tea merchant, John was baptized into the Free Church of Scotland, where his father was an Elder of the Kirk. His lively grasp of ideas and propensity for instructing others were in evidence at an early stage: he became a Sunday School teacher at the age of twelve. At first attracted to a career in business, he entered the Arts Faculty of Glasgow University in 1871, but left in 1876 without graduating. While at university he experienced a call to the ministry of the United Presbyterian Church: transferring his allegiance to...