Roll Baronets
The Roll Baronetcy, of The Chestnuts in Wanstead in the County of Essex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 4 November 1921 for James Roll, Chairman of Pearl Assurance Co Ltd and Lord Mayor of London from 1920 to 1921. The title became extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet in 1998. Roll baronets, of The Chestnuts (1921) * Sir James Roll, 1st Baronet (1846–1927) *Sir Frederick James Roll, 2nd Baronet (1873–1933) *Sir Cecil Ernest Roll, 3rd Baronet (1878–1938) *Sir James William Cecil Roll, 4th Baronet (1912–1998)- educated at Chigwell School and Pembroke College, Oxford, he took no degree at the latter but was trained for holy orders at Chichester Theological College. Despite inheriting £3 million, he chose to minister to the poor, including in the East End in the aftermath of the Blitz during the Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted fr ...
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Wanstead
Wanstead () is a town in East London, England, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It borders South Woodford to the north, Redbridge, London, Redbridge to the east and Forest Gate to the south, with Leytonstone and Walthamstow to the west. It is located 8 miles northeast of Charing Cross. Historically an ancient parish in the Becontree Hundred, Becontree hundred of Essex, it was granted Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district status in 1894, and formed part of the Municipal Borough of Wanstead and Woodford between 1937 and 1965, when it became part of the London Borough of Redbridge. Wanstead was a key part of the M11 link road protest from 1993 to 1995, which ended with the construction of the A12 road (England), A12 that run