 He remarried in 1954, to Marjory (Midge) Reece (née Bisset), acquiring a stepdaughter.His second wife died in 2001.One of his sons became a lieutenant-commander in the Navy and his grandson, Barney Pollock, who also joined the Navy, passed out at Dartmouth in December 2004 with the Commandant Talbot prize for leadership and the Queen's Sword.