Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth

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  1. "Maryland State Archives, Reference, MSA SC 4885-1-27"
  2. "East Anglian Worthies", by John Lucius Smith-Dampier, published by B. Blackwell, 1949, p. 165.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Wikisource-logo.svg One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cranworth, Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 379.
  4. Henry Rumsey Forster (1852). The Pocket Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland. D. Bogue. p. 103.
  5. "Rolfe, Robert Monsey (RLF808RM)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. "Lord Cranworth, the last Liberal. Lord Chancellor, died after only » 1 Aug 1868 » The Spectator Archive". The Spectator Archive.
  7. Burke's Peerage. 1868.

Notes

  1. Monsey was chief medical adviser to the whigs and a friend of Daniel Dulany the Younger. [1]
The Lord Cranworth
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Lord Cranworth wearing the parliamentary robes of a baron
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
In office
28 December 1852 21 February 1858
Preceded by The Lord St Leonards
Succeeded by The Lord Chelmsford
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency Member of Parliament for Penryn and Falmouth
1832–1840
With: Lord Tullamore 1832–1835
James William Freshfield 1835–1840
Succeeded by
Legal offices
Preceded by Solicitor General
1834
Succeeded by
Preceded by Solicitor General
1835–1839
Succeeded by
Preceded by Vice-Chancellor
1850 – 1851
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
1852–1858
Succeeded by
Preceded by Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
1865–1866
Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Cranworth
1850–1868
Extinct