[1][2] He became a junior teacher at the Friends' School, Croydon, in 1843, and in 1849 entered the Flounders Institute at Ackworth, Yorkshire, a Quaker college for training schoolmasters.
[5] Pollard issued several Quaker tracts while he was at Ackworth, including Primitive Christianity Revived and Congregational Worship.
Ill-health obliged him to leave the teaching profession in 1866, but he was first mentioned as a recorded minister in the same year, when the family moved to Reigate.
A proponent of liberal, quietist Quaker theology, he was a co-author with Frith and W. E. Turner of the influential book A Reasonable Faith, "by Three Friends" (1884 and 1886).
[5] He died on 26 September 1893 at his home, Drayton Lodge, Eccles, Lancashire,[1] and was buried in the Quaker cemetery at Ashton-on-Mersey.