Benjamin Pollard TD (12 September 1890 – 11 April 1967)[1] was an Anglican bishop.

He was posted to East Leeds Hospital, then to Aldershot and finally to Salonika where he remained until after the Armistice.

From 1924 to 1928 he was Rector of St Chrysostom's Victoria Park, Manchester and then began a long association with the Lancaster area.

His name arose first for the vacancy at Wakefield in 1945 but he was seen to lack ‘depth’ [7] and ‘being heavy and a trifle worldly’.

[8] It seemed that when he was overlooked for Blackburn in 1954 [9] his opportunity was gone but he received the Archbishop of York's support for Sodor & Man in 1954.