Lancelot Rolleston
(1737–1802); Esq. of Watnall, High Sheriff of Nottingham (1781)
About Lancelot Rolleston
Lived 1737 – 1802 (aged 64–65). Lancelot Rolleston was an English.
Launcelot Rolleston (January 1737 – 25 April 1802) was a member of the Markeaton hunt.
Biography Rolleston was baptised on 27 January 1737, the son of John Rolleston, the minister at Aston-on-Trent and Dorothy his wife. Rolleston's family seat was Watnall Hall in Nottinghamshire which he inherited on the death of his father in 1770.
In 1762–3 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy commissioned a set of six portraits of his friends in the Markeaton Hunt and one of these was Rolleston. Each of the subjects was in the distinctive dress of the Markeaton Hunt, consisting of a blue coat over a scarlet waistcoat and yellow breeches. These paintings hung at Mundy's ancestral home, Markeaton Hall.
Rolleston died on 25 April 1802
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(1737–1802); Esq. of Watnall, High Sheriff of Nottingham (1781)
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Lancelot Rolleston died on 25 April 1802.
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