Lancelot Rolleston

Politician

1785 – 1862

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Who was Lancelot Rolleston?

Lancelot Rolleston was a British Conservative Party politician.

He was elected unopposed as a Member of Parliament for Southern division of Nottinghamshire at the 1837 general election. He was re-elected unopposed in 1841 and 1847, and resigned from the House of Commons in 1849 by the procedural device of accepting the post of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

His daughter Charlotte Frances Anne Rolleston was married on 11 April 1840 to the Whig politician George Heneage.

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Born
Jul 20, 1785
Died
May 18, 1862

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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