John Rolle, baron Rolle

(1751-1842)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Rolle of Stevenstone, John Rolle, Baron, 1750-1842 NRA: Rolle John (1756-1842) Baron Rolle of Stevenstone MP DNB: Rolle, John, Baron Rolle (bap. 1751, d. 1842), politician LBT ID: LdRolle1 VIAF ID: 11380270 LOC ID: n87933809	B/BAP: 1751-10-06 DIED: 1842-04-03
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Educated at Winchester and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was a Tory MP for Devon (1780-96) before being granted his peerage. The satirical Rolliad (1785) was named for him.
REFERENCES TO John Rolle, baron Rolle: Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, 25 March 1817 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch XII: 1817-18