Robert Monsey Rolfe, baron Cranworth

(1790-1868)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cranworth, Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron, 1790-1868 NRA: Rolfe Robert Monsey (1790-1868) Baron Cranworth Lord Chancellor DNB: Rolfe, Robert Monsey, Baron Cranworth (1790-1868), judge LBT ID: LdCranw1 VIAF ID: 43243100 LOC ID: n84123147	B/BAP: 1790-12-18 DIED: 1868-07-26
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Educated at Winchester, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Lincoln's Inn; he was MP for Penryn and Falmouth (1832), solicitor-general (1834) serjant-at-low (1839), and lord chancellor (1852).
REFERENCES TO Robert Monsey Rolfe, baron Cranworth: Sydney Smith to Sir George Philips, 13 September 1842 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Brougham to Samuel Rogers, [16 July 1850] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1842 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VIII. 1850