 Ill-health obliged him to leave the teaching profession in 1866, but he was first mentioned as a recorded minister in the same year, when the family moved to Reigate.From 1866 to 1872, Pollard worked for the photographer Francis Frith.A proponent of liberal, quietist Quaker theology, he was co-author, with Frith and W. E. Turner, of the influential book "A Reasonable Faith", "by Three Friends" (1884 and 1886), which provoked outcry among evangelically minded Quakers.