High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Lewis Pollard (c.1465-1526) was Justice of the Common Pleas from 1514 to 1526 and served as MP for Totnes in 1491 and was a JP in Devon in 1492. He was knighted after 1509. He was one of several Devonshire men to be "innated with a genius to study law", as identified by Fuller, who became eminent lawyers at a national level. He was a kinsman of the judge and Speaker of the House of Commons Sir John Pollard (c.1508-1557). He was also a member of the first group of feoffees of Manchester Grammar School.