Pollok, Allan

POLLOK, ALLAN: Presbyterian; b. at Buckhaven (15½} m. s.w. of St. Andrews), Fifeshire, Scotland, Oct. 19, 1829. He was educated at the University of Glasgow (M.A., 1852), was sent by the Colonial Committee of the Church of Scotland to Nova Scotia, where he was minister of St. Andrew's, New Glasgow (1852–75), professor of church history and practical theology in the Presbyterian College, Halifax (1875–1904), acting also as principal (1886–1904). He still lectures occasionally in the college, and in theology is a "moderate Calvinist, holding the doctrines of the Westminster Confession in all essentials." He has written Lectures on the Book of Common Order (New York, 1897), and Studies in Practical Theology (Edinburgh, 1907).