David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth

Who is David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth?

David Stephen Geoffrey Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth is a British professor and a peer-elected hereditary Labour member of the House of Lords.

Hanworth was educated at Wellington College and has taken a Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He is currently Professor of Econometrics and Computational Statistics at the University of Leicester, where he lectures in Mathematical Statistics, Econometrics and Environmental Sciences. He has been elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Grandson of a foremost civil judge, Hanworth succeeded to the viscountcy upon his father's death in 1996 and took his seat in the House of Lords until the House of Lords Act in 1999 removed his automatic right to sit in Parliament. He chose not to stand in the election by Labour hereditary peers to select two of their number to remain in Parliament after this Act came into force. Hanworth stood but was unsuccessful in the by-election caused by the death of Lord Milner in 2003. Willing to work in the Lords still, in 2011 he won the cross-house hereditary by-election to become one of fifteen 'deputy speakers', following the death of Lord Strabolgi, who was also Labour.