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Born: 18 December 1790, Cranworth, Norfolk

Died: 26 July 1868

1st Baron Cranworth - 20 December 1850

Knighted - 1835

Member of Privy Council - 1850

son of Rev Edmund Rolfe

son of Jemima Alexander

husband of Laura Carr

Winchester College

Trinity College, Cambridge

Downing College, Cambridge

Lincoln's Inn

Lawyer

2 May 1831	Bury St Edmunds	Whig	2	6.78
11 December 1832	Penryn & Falmouth	Whig	490	68.34
6 January 1835	Penryn & Falmouth	Whig	424	57.61
1835 Resignation of Robert Monsey Rolfe on appointment as Solicitor-General.
28 April 1835	Penryn & Falmouth	Whig	348	51.63
25 July 1837	Penryn & Falmouth	Whig	523	68.73
1839 Resignation of Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe on appointment as a Baron of the Exchequer.