INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
Plowden.
Place, W. Clubs: Brooks, Oriental.
Polak, Henry S. L., Attorney, Supreme Court, Transvaal, South Africa; European Jew; b. in London; educ: London; went over to South Africa and enrolled himself as Attorney, Supreme Court, Transvaal; identified himself with Indians in South Africa and is one of the leaders of the Indian Passive Resistance Movement; Editor, Indian Opinion, Natal; sentenced to three months’ imprisonment by the Walksrust Magistrate in Natal, for his advocacy of the cause of Indians; delegate to India from the Transvaal and the Natal. Publications: Indians of South Africa, etc. published by Messrs. G. A. Natasen & Co., Madras. Address: Natal, South Africa.
Pole-Carew, Lieut.-General Sir Reginald Pole, K.C.B. (1900), C.V.O., Indian Army (retired); e.s. of late W. H. Pole-Carew; b. Antony, Cornwall, 1849; educ: Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; served in the Cold Stream Guards, 1869-90; Private Secretary to Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of N.S. Wales, 1876-77; A.D.C. to Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India, 1878-79; A.D.C. to Sir F. Roberts in the Afghan War, 1879-80; A.D.C. to H.R.H. Duke of Connaught in Egypt, 1882; Military Secretary to Sir F. Roberts when C.-in-C. of Madras, 1884; Military Secretary to Sir F. Roberts and C.-in-C. India, 1895-99; Commanded the Guards Brigade in South Africa, 1900; contested Pembroke Borough (C. 1906; holds a Jubilee medal and a Coronation medal; commanded the 8th division of the 3rd Army Corps, 1903-05; retired, 1906; Heir; s. John Gawen; b. 1902. Address: Antony, Cornwall. Clubs: Marlborough, Turfs, Travellers, Pratt’s, Carlton.
Pollen, John, B.A., LL.B., LL.D., C.I.E. (1903), I.C.S.; s. of .John Pollen, formerly of Mount Haigh, Dublin; b. 1818; educ: Kingston School and Trinity College, Dublin; B.A.. and LL.B. 1871; LL.D., 1888; called to Bar (Middle Temple), 1898; joined service, 1871; acting Under Secretary, Bombay, and Secretary to Governor’s Council, 1880; Assistant to the Commissioner, Sind, and Sindi Translator to Government, 1881; District and Sessions Judge, and Superintendent of Police, Bombay, 1881; District Magistrate of Broach, Ratnagiri and Panchmahals, 1890; Commissioner of Customs, Bombay, 1910; Member, Bombay Legislative Council, 1902; on special duty in Bengal Famine of 1874; special duty with Demarcation Boundary Commission to enquire into the rights of the tennets and the landholders in Sind and for revision of Customs procedure; President, 3rd Esperanto Congress, and British Esperantial Association; Interpreter in Russian; Reporter on external commerce; President, S.P.C.A., India and of the Anthropological Society, India, Member of the Committee of Anglo-Russian Literary Society and of the Imperial Institute; Lt.-Colonel of Sind and Bombay Volunteer Rifles. Publication: Rhymes from Russia, etc. Address; The Retreat, 6, Talbat House, Blackheath, S.E.; Byculla, Bombay. Club: Royal Bombay, Yacht (Western India).
