Everything about Robert Rolfe 1st Baron Cranworth totally explained
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth PC (
18 December 1790 –
26 July 1868), was a
British lawyer and
Liberal politician. He twice served as
Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom
Born at Cranworth, Norfolk, he was the elder son of the Reverend Edward Rolfe. He was educated at
Bury St Edmunds,
Winchester, and
Trinity College, Cambridge, and was
called to the bar,
Lincoln's Inn, in
1816. He represented
Penryn and Falmouth in Parliament from 1832 until he was appointed a
Baron of the Exchequer in 1839. In
1850 he was appointed a Vice-Chancellor and raised to the peerage as
Baron Cranworth, of Cranworth in the County of Norfolk. In
1852 Lord Cranworth became Lord Chancellor in
Lord Aberdeen's coalition ministry. He continued to hold the chancellorship also in the administration of
Lord Palmerston until the latter's resignation in
1858.
Cranworth wasn't reappointed when Palmerston returned to office in
1859, but on the retirement of
Lord Westbury in
1865 he accepted the office for a second time, and held it till the fall of the
Russell administration in
1866. Cranworth died in
London on
26 July 1868. He was childless and the title became extinct on his death.
9 days before his death, he gave judgment in the case of
Rylands v Fletcher, one of the most famous cases in English legal history.
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