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Cranworth, Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron, 1790-1868

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Personal name headingCranworth, Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron, 1790-1868
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Variant(s)Cranworth, Lord High Chancellor, 1790-1868
Rolfe, Robert Monsey, Baron Cranworth, 1790-1868
Associated countryGreat Britain
Birth date17901218
Death date18680726
Place of birthNorfolk (England)
Place of deathLondon (England)
Field of activityEquity
AffiliationGreat Britain. Court of Chancery Lincoln's Inn (London, England)
Profession or occupationLawyers Judges
Special noteOld catalog heading: Cranworth, Robert Monsey Rolfe, baron, 1790-1868
Found inLaw Reformer. A letter to the Right Honorable the Lord High Chancellor Cranworth ... 1853: t.p.
LC manual auth. cd., 10/23/84 (hdg.: Cranworth, Robert Monsey Rolfe, baron, 1790-1868)
Reports of cases decided in the High Court of Chancery, in 1850 and 1851, by the Right Hon. Lord Cranworth, vice-chancellor
Concise Dictionary of national biography, 1903 (Rolfe, Robert Monsey, Baron Cranworth (1790-1868), lawyer; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1816; vice-chancellor and privy councillor, 1850; created Baron Cranworth of Cranworth, Norfolk, 1850; one of the first lords justices on creation of court of appeal in chancery, 1851; lord chancellor, 1852)
Wikipedia, viewed August 21, 2014 (Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth; Robert Monsey Rolfe; 18 December 1790 - 26 July 1868; was a British lawyer and Liberal politician; twice served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain; born at Cranworth, Norfolk; died in London on 26 July 1868, aged 77; childless and the title became extinct on his death)
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