{{Short description|New Zealand politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2014}} {{NZ parlbox header|nolist=true}} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1884}} |end=1887 |electorate={{NZ electorate link|Rodney}} |term=9th |party=Independent politician }} {{NZ parlbox |start={{NZ election link year|1887}} |end=1890 |electorate=Rodney |term=10th |party=Independent politician }} {{End}} '''William Pollock Moat''' (1827 – 24 March 1895) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Auckland, New Zealand.
Pollock represented the Warkworth electorate in the Auckland Provincial Council from 18 November 1873 until the abolition of provincial government on 31 October 1876.<ref name="Scholefield 1950">{{cite book |authorlink = Guy Scholefield | last = Scholefield | first= Guy | title = New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 | edition = 3rd | orig-date=First published in 1913 | year = 1950 |publisher = Govt. Printer |location = Wellington | page =185 }}</ref>
Pollock represented the Rodney electorate from 1884 to 1890, when he retired.<ref>{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= Jim | author-link=Jim Wilson (librarian) |title= New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4 |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103 |page=220}}</ref>
Aged 68, Pollock died in Parnell on 24 March 1895.<ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS18950326.2.53 |access-date=14 January 2026 |work=Auckland Star |volume=XXVI |issue=72 |date=26 March 1895 |page=8}}</ref> He was buried, with masonic rites, at Purewa Cemetery.<ref>{{cite news |title=Funeral of Mr. W. P. Moat |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18950328.2.58 |volume=XXXII |issue=9779 |date=28 March 1895 |page=6}}</ref>
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