Gilbert Pollock

Gilbert Reid Pollock (24 August 1865 - 26 May 1954) was a Scottish iron engineer, businessman, and footballer who was a founder of Spanish club Sevilla FC and the author of the club's first-ever away goal.

Early life Gilbert Reid Pollock was born on 24 August 1865, in Carradale, Saddell. After completing his studies, he began gaining a reputation as an accomplished young engineer and, after achieving enough professional experience, moved to Seville towards the end of the 1880s, where he was employed at the engineering works of the Portilla White foundry in Seville. That same evening, after consuming some beers and becoming concerned about their physical health and lifestyle, Pollock and the others began discussing the proposal of forming an Athletics Association, but after a short debate, they instead founded Sevilla FC to organize football matches regularly in order to exercise and feel more at home. To that end, they drew up the rough articles and the constitution of Sevilla FC, doing it so while in a drunken state. This time, however, Sevilla went on to lose as Huelva's side, fortified by "some athletes from the British colony of Rio-Tinto", fought back to win 2–1. This company was once a prosperous global enterprise, employing 500 men at its peak, and engining almost 400 vessels between 1896 and 1931.

Death Widowed some years earlier, Pollock was living at the Fort Anne Hotel in Douglas when he died in 1954, aged 88, and was buried in Braddan Cemetery, where his grave can still be seen today.