Lancelot Rolleston
Lancelot Rolleston (20 July 1785 – 18 May 1862)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.
He was elected unopposed[2] as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Southern division of Nottinghamshire at the 1837 general election.[3] He was re-elected unopposed[2] in 1841[4] and 1847,[5] and resigned from the House of Commons in 1849 by the procedural device of accepting the post of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.[6]
His daughter Charlotte Frances Anne Rolleston (died January 1853) was married on 11 April 1840 to the Whig politician George Heneage.[7]
References
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N"
- ^ 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.
- ^ "No. 19532". The London Gazette. 15 August 1837. p. 2156.
- ^ "No. 19999". The London Gazette. 16 July 1841. p. 1856.
- ^ "No. 20764". The London Gazette. 13 August 1847. p. 2951.
- ^ "No. 20970". The London Gazette. 20 April 1849. p. 1312.
- ^ Lundy, Darryl. "Edward Heneage b. 24 July 1802, d. 25 June 1880". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 21 November 2010.
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