| George Pollard | |
 Pollard on his 105th birthday in 2020 | |
| Birth: | 17 December 1914 Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK |
| Death: | 20 April 2021 East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK |
| Age: | 106 years, 124 days |
| Country: |  UK
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| Centenarian | |
Francis George John Pollard (17 December 1914 – 20 April 2021) was a British centenarian who was the oldest known living man in Scotland at the time of his death.
Biography[]
George Pollard was born in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, UK on 17 December 1914, the eldest of three children. He was raised in the port with his brother Harry and sister Alma. After school, he started work at the town’s Royal Naval Torpedo factory before being moved by the company to their factory in Alexandria.
He married Peggy, and had two children: Ida Commons and Edward Pollard. The family set up home in Balloch in 1954, where they would stay until the death of Peggy in 1998 at the age of 82. After of death of his wife, he moved to East Kilbride to live with his daughter Ida.
He learned to swim at age 85. He was cycling until he was 95. At the age of 105, he suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
By his 105th birthday in 2019, he had four grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.
Pollard became the oldest known living man in Scotland following the death of 106 year-old Walter Sharp on 19 August 2020.
Pollard died in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK on 20 April 2021 at the age of 106 years, 124 days. After his death, 106-year-old David Crawford became the oldest living man in Scotland.
References[]
- 100th is sealed with a kiss PressReader, 31 December 2014
- 'Real character' George celebrates milestone 105th birthday in East Kilbride Daily Record, 24 December 2019
- my Grampa is the oldest man in Scotland Isobel Mair School (Twitter), 1 October 2020
- Sunday 13th December 2020 YouTube, 13 December 2020
| Scotland's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (V • E) |
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Andrew Amos • Alexander MacPhail • James Mathison • William Kirkpatrick • Thomas Maxwell • Robert Spence • William Green • Samuel Brown • James Webster • William Laidlaw • John Macrae • Thomas Senior • Peter Melville • Gavin Allan • John Young • Angus MacLeod • James Watt • Donald Maclellan • Robert Grieve • Henry Reid • John Macaskill • William Laing • George Wilkie • Donald MacInnes • James Matches • James Balnaves • James Morrison • Joseph McVinnie • Francis Mathison • John MacGregor • John Dykes • John Neill • James Ogilvie • Alexander Pirie • George Ferguson • William Mair • Jock Smith • Alexander Mackay • Tom Petrie • George McLaren • Henry Kempton • Andrew Main • Gilbert Campbell • John McNally • William Burns • Lachlan MacQueen • Gilbert Watson • Angus Orr • William Eeles • John Glendinning • Robert McBride • John Barr • John Morton • Andrew Drummond • Peter Cummings • James Hardy • David Henderson • Ernest Clucas • Ewen Ross • Sandy Gall • Alfred Anderson • James Wotherspoon • Bob Taggart • Sam Latter • John Hodge • Leo Tavelli • David Campbell • James Hagan • Frank Saunders • Tom MacIver • Alf Smith • Jimmy Sinclair • Chic Kennedy • Walter Sharp • George Pollard • David Crawford • Hugh Munro Kerr |