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Arms of Rolle: Or, on a fesse dancetté between three billets azure each charged with a
lion rampant of the first three
bezants
Robert Rolle (c. 1622 – 1660) was an English politician who sat in the
House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1660.
Origins
Rolle was the son of
Sir Samuel Rolle of
Heanton Satchville ,
Petrockstowe , Devon, and his wife Margaret Wise daughter of
Sir Thomas Wise .
[1]
Career
He was admitted for his legal training at the
Inner Temple in 1640. He was appointed
High Sheriff of Devon for 1649–50. In 1654 he was elected
Member of Parliament for
Devon in the
First Protectorate Parliament and was re-elected MP for Devon in 1656 for the
Second Protectorate Parliament and in 1659 for the
Third Protectorate Parliament .
[2] In January 1660 he was appointed a member of the
Rump Parliament's final Council of State but does not appear to have attended any meetings, likely due to the Council enforcing an oath abjuring the Stuart family and any Single Person or House of Lords.
[3] He was elected MP for the family's
pocket borough of
Callington in the
Convention Parliament in 1660, but died in the same year.
[4]
Marriage and children
Rolle married Lady Arabella Clinton, the younger daughter of
Theophilus Clinton, 4th Earl of Lincoln and 12th Baron Clinton (d.1667) and had a son and a daughter:
Samuel Rolle (d.1719) who married Margaret Tuckfield
[5] and had issue:
Bridget Rolle (1648–1721) who married Francis Trefusis and had a son, Samuel Trefusis (1677–1722). After the death of
George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford in 1791, Samuel's great-grandson
Robert Trefusis (1764–1797) established his claim to the Barony of Clinton in 1794.
References
^
'General history: Nobility', Magna Britannia: volume 6: Devonshire (1822), pp. LXXXIII-XCV. Date accessed: 2 July 2011
^
Willis, Browne (1750).
Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp.
229 –239.
^ 'Table of Attendances of the Council of State. ', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum, 1659-60, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green (London, 1886), pp. xxiii-xxvii
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/interregnum/1659-60/xxiii-xxvii [Retrieved 27 March 2015]
^
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 1)
^ thepeerage.com
^
Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley The House of Commons: 1690-1715