Robert Rolle (died 1660)

Robert Rolle (c. 1622 – 1660) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1660.

Arms of Rolle: Or, on a fesse dancetté between three billets azure each charged with a lion rampant of the first three bezants

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:

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gollark: They would need cubical chunks or would waste lots of memory.
gollark: I have an R3 1200, which is at least good-for-the-time-I-got-it in multicore.
gollark: Probably partly I guess? Garbage collection is evil.
gollark: At 1080p, though.

References
  1. 'General history: Nobility', Magna Britannia: volume 6: Devonshire (1822), pp. LXXXIII-XCV. Date accessed: 2 July 2011
  2. 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.
  3. '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 [accessed 27 March 2015]
  4. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 1)
  5. thepeerage.com
  6. Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley The House of Commons: 1690-1715
Parliament of England
Preceded by
George Monck


John Carew
Thomas Saunders
Christopher Martyn
James Erisey,
Francis Rous
Richard Sweet

 Member of Parliament for Devon
1654–1659
With: Sir John Northcote, Bt 1654–1659
Arthur Upton 1654–1656
Thomas Reynell 1654–1656
William Morice 1654–1656
John Hale 1654– 1656
Thomas Saunders 1654–1656
Henry Hatsell 1654–1656
William Bastard 1654
William Fry 1654
John Quick 1654
Sir John Yonge 1656
Edmund Fowell 1656
John Doddridge 1656		 Succeeded by
Not represented in Restored Rump
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