POLLOK

Arthur (son of Thomas Pollok). b. Faside 1781; with his brother John entered grocery busine of Allan Pollok, Glasgow; they joined Allan Gilmour as wood merchants 1804, the firm being Pollok, Gilmour and Co. Glasgow; he managed the branch at Grange mouth, then the branch houses at St. John and Miramichi 1808; started ship building yards at Quebec and acquired forests and saw mills; the largest ship owners in the United Kingdom; retired from busine 1853; John Pollock b. Faside 1778, d. 1858; he d. Broom, Faside 1870. J. Macle hose’s Glasgow men ii 263–4 (1886) portrait .