Hugh Pollard (Sheriff)

Sir Hugh I Pollard (fl. 1536, 1545) lord of the manor of King's Nympton in Devon, was Sheriff of Devon in 1535/6 and in 1545 was appointed Recorder of Barnstaple in Devon.

He was the eldest son and heir of Sir Lewis Pollard (c.1465–1526) of King's Nympton, a Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526 and Member of Parliament for Totnes in 1491. Hugh's mother was Agnes Hext, daughter of Thomas Hext, a prominent lawyer of Kingston in the parish of Staverton, near Totnes, by his wife Florence Bonville. Westcote stated her to be the heiress of Dunisford (or Donesford). The Pollard family were first established in Devon before the 13th century at the manor of Way in the parish of St Giles in the Wood, near Great Torrington.

Hugh's younger brother was the more prominent Sir Richard Pollard (1505–1542), MP for Taunton (1536) and for Devon (1539, 1542), of Putney, Surrey, King's Remembrancer of the Exchequer and a law reporter, who was an assistant of Thomas Cromwell in administering the surrender of religious houses following the Dissolution of the Monasteries. In 1537 Thomas was granted by King Henry VIII the manor of Combe Martin in Devon and in 1540 Forde Abbey.

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