John Rolleston (British politician)

Sir John Fowke Lancelot Rolleston DL JP (26 March 1848 – 9 April 1919) was a British Conservative Party politician.[1]

Sir John Rolleston

Rolleston was the eldest son of Rev. William Lancelot Rolleston, vicar of Great Dalby and Scraptoft, and his wife, Mary Sophia Fowke, daughter of Sir Frederick Gustavus Fowke, 1st Baronet.[2]

He was educated at Repton School and King's College London. He was a keen Conservative and the leader of his party in Leicester, where, after being twice defeated at the poll, he was elected Member of Parliament in 1900. He sat for Leicester until 1906 when he was again defeated by the Liberal-Labour coalition. He was subsequently elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Hertford in January 1910 and held the seat until 1916. He was knighted in 1897.[1]

Rolleston was also a prominent freemason. After several years of declining health, he died at his home in Glen Parva, Leicestershire, at the age of 71.[1]

References
  1. "Obituary: Sir John Rolleston". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 11 April 1919. p. 14.
  2. Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1914). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (76th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2504.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Sir John Fowke Lancelot Rolleston", The Annual Register (1920), Longman, Greens & Co. pp. 187-188

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Henry Broadhurst
and Walter Hazell		 Member of Parliament for Leicester
1900–1906
With: Henry Broadhurst		 Succeeded by
Henry Broadhurst and
Ramsay MacDonald
Preceded by
Abel Henry Smith		 Member of Parliament for Hertford
1910–1916		 Succeeded by
Noel Pemberton Billing


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