Sir Hugh Pollard

Politician and Royalist army officer Sir Hugh Pollard, 2nd Baronet of King's Nympton in Devon, died in Whitehall on 27th November 1666 and was buried in Westminster Abbey in early December but the exact location is not given in the registers.

He was a son of Sir Lewis Pollard and his wife Margaret (Berkeley) and held various posts including Controller of the King's Household, Governor of Dartmouth, Vice Admiral of Devon and Governor of Guernsey. His first wife was Lady Bridget de Vere, daughter of Edward, 17th Earl of Oxford and widow of the 1st Earl of Berkshire and they had a daughter and his second was widow Mary Rolle but their son pre-deceased his father. Hugh's brother, therefore, succeeded to the title.

Further reading:

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

History of Parliament online