Tom Pollard

Tom Pollard (28 April 1857 – 30 August 1922) was a New Zealand comic opera producer and manager.

When the eldest son of the family died in 1884 Tom was taken into partnership of the company by his father-in-law J. J. Pollard and they made several successful tours to New Zealand.

[2] In 1881 he founded a company, "Pollard's Lilliputians", consisting of 80[3] well trained juvenile performers, all from Australia or New Zealand.

[4] In 1882 they toured comic operas like Les Cloches de Corneville and HMS Pinafore through the Australian colonies, also India and Singapore, drawing full houses wherever they went.

In 1903 Pollard's company toured South Africa under the name the Australian Opera Co. but it went into recess the same year.