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He became a junior teacher at the Friends' School Croydon in 1843 and in 1849 entered the Flounders Institute at Ackworth Yorkshire. In 1871 he publiWilliam Pollardd Considerations Addressed to the Society of Friends on the Peace Question and in 1872 he became secretary and lecturer to the Lancashire and Cheshire International Arbitration Association a branch of the Peace Society. He died on 26 September 1893 at his home Drayton Lodge Eccles Manchester.

William Pollard (1828–1893) was a Quaker writer and recorded minister.