Lancelot Rolleston

Not to be confused with Launcelot Rolleston.

Lancelot Rolleston (20 July 1785 – 18 May 1862)[1] of Watnall Hall, Nottinghamshire,[2] was a British Conservative Party politician.

He was the eldest son of Christopher Rolleston of Watnall Hall by Anne, daughter of Captain Nicholas, Royal Navy. He married, firstly, Caroline, only daughter of Sir George Chetwynd, Baronet, by whom he had several children, and secondly, Eleanor Charlotte, daughter of Robert Fraser of Torbreck, Inverness-shire, by whom he had further children.[2]

He was appointed Colonel of the disembodied Royal Sherwood Foresters Militia on 11 April 1833, and retained the position when the regiment was reformed in 1852, when he commanded it during its initial training periods. It was embodied for home defence duties in the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny, although the command was exercised by younger officers.[2]

He was elected unopposed[3] as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Southern division of Nottinghamshire at the 1837 general election.[4] He was re-elected unopposed[3] in 1841[5] and 1847,[6] and resigned from the House of Commons in 1849 by the procedural device of accepting the post of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.[7]

He died at Brighton on 18 May 1862 and was buried in St Mary's Church, Greasley, Nottinghamshire.[2]

His daughter Charlotte Frances Anne Rolleston (died January 1853) was married on 11 April 1840 to the Whig politician George Heneage.[8]

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N"
  2. ^ a b c d Capt A.E. Lawson Lowe, Historical Record of the Royal Sherwood Foresters; or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia, London: Mitchell, 1872, pp. 50, 52, 69, 83.
  3. ^ a b Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 440. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  4. ^ "No. 19532". The London Gazette. 15 August 1837. p. 2156.
  5. ^ "No. 19999". The London Gazette. 16 July 1841. p. 1856.
  6. ^ "No. 20764". The London Gazette. 13 August 1847. p. 2951.
  7. ^ "No. 20970". The London Gazette. 20 April 1849. p. 1312.
  8. ^ Lundy, Darryl. "Edward Heneage b. 24 July 1802, d. 25 June 1880". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 21 November 2010.