1974
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Born at Emsworth in Hampshire and educated at The Manor House School, Havant, Hampshire.
Married the late Mr. William Pollard, founder of Pollard Bearings Company. There are six children and seventeen grandchildren.
Councillor Mrs. Pollard was first elected to the former City Council in May 1955 as representative for Spinney Hill Ward and was elevated to the Aldermanic Bench of the City Council in 1969. In 1970 she was appointed High Bailiff of the City of Leicester.
Councillor Mrs. Pollard has served on many of the former Council committees including Education, Transport, Children's, Finance, Central Purchasing. She is a former Chairman of the City's Housing Committee and of the Secondary Schools Committee.
Consequent upon re-organisation of local government in 1973 she was elected as a representative for Knighton Ward in the District Council elections. In the elections for the new Leicestershire County Council, Mrs. Pollard was elected
to represent Knighton Ward on the County Council on 12th April 1973 and serves on several of that Council's major committees.
A life-long member of the Conservative Party, she is a former Chairman of the Evington Ward and Spinney Hill Ward committees of the Conservative Party and
At present is the President of the South Leicester Conservative Association and President of the "Blue Link" Conservative Group.
Councillor Mrs. Pollard has devoted
many years of her life in voluntary service and is Chairman of the Leicester Housing Association; a member of the Executive Committee of the Leicestershire and Rut1and Federation of Women's Institutes; a former President of the Old Evington Women's Institute; Vice-President of the Leicester Branch of Muscular Dystrophy group; President of the Leicester Boys' and Girls' Summer Camp and Institute which provides holidays for needy children. During her Year of Office she inaugurated a successful public appeal and raised over £16,000 for the continuation of that Institute's Holiday Home for children at Mab1ethorpe, Lincolnshire.
As a result of her long and wide experience of housing matters the Department of the Environment of Her Majesty's Government appointed her as a member of the Housing Association's Registration and Advisory Committee.
Councillor Mrs. Pollard is a member of the Leicester University Council and is Chairman of the Governors and Chairman of the Managers of several schools in the City of Leicester. She is also a
Trustee of the Oakham School, Rut1and, Leicestershire.
A life-long member of the Church of England she serves as a member of the Parochial Church Council at St. Denys Church, Evington. She also serves on the Leicester Cathedral Tower Appeal Committee.
Her Year of Office will best be remembered for the enthusiasm with which she carried out all her Civic duties and throughout her Year of Office she vigorously campaigned for a "Brighter Leicester" and for greater public awareness of the need to keep the City clean and tidy.
Councillor Mrs. Pollard translated her feelings for the needy by supporting whole-heartedly many of the City's charitable institutions and inspired people with her concern for the needs of the handicapped, the elderly and the deprived.
