Up for auction "1st Baron Cranworth" Robert Rolfe Hand Signed 2X4 Card. This item is authenticated
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Robert
Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth, PC (18
December 1790 – 26 July 1868) was a British lawyer and Liberal politician.
He twice served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
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 Rolfe was
related to Admiral Lord Horatio
Nelson, he was educated at Bury St
Edmunds, Winchester, Trinity College, Cambridge, Downing College, Cambridge (of
which he was elected fellow) and was called to the bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1816. Cranworth represented Penryn and Falmouth in Parliament from 1832 until he was
appointed a Baron of the Exchequer in
1839. 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.
He 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. 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.