Olive Pollard obituary

My mother, Olive Pollard, who has died aged 94, was the first woman to be appointed a police constable in Nottinghamshire. She was also a sensitive, kind and wise mother.

Olive was one of six children of Clara and Edward Howard. They had a rather special childhood as their father was the butler to the Duke of Newcastle on the Clumber estate in Nottinghamshire. Olive remembered it as idyllic; they lived in a separate community in beautiful Clumber Park. Olive’s love of the English countryside, flowers, birds and nature perhaps had its seeds in this childhood environment.