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Michael Pollock
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Patrick Pollock, (19 October 1916 – 27 September 2006) was a British officer in the Royal Navy who rose to become First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in the early 1970s. In the Second World War, he was an officer on ships tasked with protecting convoys in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and was gunnery officer on the cruiser when she fought the German battleship ''Scharnhorst'' during the Battle of North Cape. He later commanded the aircraft carrier HMS ''Ark Royal'', and hosted Ian Smith on HMS ''Tiger''. In retirement, he held the position of King of Arms of the Order of the Bath and Gloucester King of Arms, with responsibility for heraldry in Wales.
==Early career==
Born the son of Charles Albert Pollock and Gladys Pollock (née Mason), Pollock was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.〔People of Today 1994, Debrett, ISBN 1-870520-19-X〕 He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1930, and was posted to the training cruiser HMS ''Frobisher'' in January 1934, receiving promotion to midshipman on 1 September 1934, on transfer to the battleship , flagship of the Home Fleet.〔Heathcote, p. 212〕 He was deployed to the Mediterranean in the destroyer HMS ''Express'' in September 1935 and saw service with her during the Abyssinian crisis.〔 He was promoted sub-lieutenant on 1 May 1937, and appointed to the cruiser HMS ''York'', flagship of the America and West Indies Station in October 1937 and, after promotion to lieutenant on 1 August 1938, he transferred to the battleship HMS ''Warspite'', based in Malta in June 1939.〔Heathcote, p. 213〕
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