Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth

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Background and education

Born at Cranworth, Norfolk, he was the elder son of the Reverend Edmund Rolfe and Jemima Alexander, James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon's niece and a granddaughter of physician Messenger Monsey.Template:Refn Rolfe, a relative of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson,[1] was educated at Bury St Edmunds, Winchester, Trinity College, Cambridge,[2] Downing College, Cambridge (of which he was elected fellow) [3] and was called to the bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1816.[4]

Legal and political career

Cranworth represented Penryn and Falmouth in Parliament from 1832 until he was appointed a Baron of the Exchequer in 1839.[2] In 1850 he was appointed a Vice-Chancellor and raised to the peerage as Baron Cranworth, of Cranworth in the County of Norfolk. In 1852 Lord Cranworth became Lord Chancellor in Lord Aberdeen's coalition ministry.

In 1854, Cranworth was appointed to the Royal Commission for Consolidating the Statute Law, a royal commission to consolidate existing statutes and enactments of English law.[5]

Cranworth continued to hold the chancellorship also in the administration of Lord Palmerston until the latter's resignation in 1858. Cranworth was not reappointed when Palmerston returned to office in 1859, but on the retirement of Lord Westbury in 1865 he accepted the office for a second time, and held it till the fall of the Russell administration in 1866.[2]

Personal life

In 1845, Cranworth married Laura Carr (1807–1868), daughter of Thomas William Carr (born 1770). The couple had no children.

Lord Cranworth died at his seat, Holwood House, on 26 July 1868, aged 77, after a short illness related to the heat.[6] He was childless and the title became extinct on his death.[2]

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References

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  1. ↑ "East Anglian Worthies", by John Lucius Smith-Dampier, published by B. Blackwell, 1949, p. 165.
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Further reading

  • J. B. Atlay. The Victorian chancellors (2 vols. 1908) 2:53-78. online
  • W. R. Cornish and David J. A. Cairnshttps. "Rolfe, Robert Monsey, Baron Cranworth" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/24019

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