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Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth

(1790-1868), Judge

Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry

Sitter in 14 portraits
Rolfe twice served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom. Having trained in the law, Rolfe was called to the Bar in 1816. He entered Parliament as an MP in 1832 until he was appointed Vice Chancellor and raised to the peerage as Baron Cranworth in 1850. Two years later he became Lord Chancellor in Lord Aberdeen's coalition ministry. Cranworth was not reappointed when Palmerston returned to office in 1859, but in 1865 he accepted the office for a second time, and held it until the fall of the Russell administration in 1866. Just nine days before his death in 1868, he passed judgement in the case of Rylands v Fletcher, one of the most famous cases in English legal history.

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Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth, by Caldesi, Blanford & Co - NPG Ax16237

Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth

by Caldesi, Blanford & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1860s
NPG Ax16237

Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth, by and published by William Walker - NPG Ax15858

Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth

by and published by William Walker
albumen print, published 1865
NPG Ax15858

Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth, by Francis Holl, published by  Joseph Hogarth, after  George Richmond - NPG D34214

Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth

by Francis Holl, published by Joseph Hogarth, after George Richmond
stipple engraving, published 1850
NPG D34214

Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth, by William Holl Jr, after  George Richmond - NPG D20673

Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth

by William Holl Jr, after George Richmond
stipple engraving, 1852 or after
NPG D20673

Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth, by Francis Holl, published by  Joseph Hogarth, after  George Richmond - NPG D34215

Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth

by Francis Holl, published by Joseph Hogarth, after George Richmond
stipple engraving, published 1853
NPG D34215

'The New Ministry - the Cabinet', January 1853, by Frederick James Smyth, published by  Illustrated London News - NPG D45901

'The New Ministry - the Cabinet', January 1853

by Frederick James Smyth, published by Illustrated London News
wood engraving, published 8 January 1853
NPG D45901

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Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron Cranworth

by William Walker
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1865
NPG Ax38706

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