Andrew Rollo, 5th

Lord Rollo Lord Rollo, of Duncrub in the County of Perth, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created on 10 January 1651 for Sir Andrew Rollo. His great-great-grandson, the fifth Lord, was a Brigadier-General in the Army and fought in North ...

, (18 November 1703,

Duncrub Dunning is a small village in Perth and Kinross in Scotland with a population of about 1,000. The village centres around the 12th–13th century former parish church of St. Serf, where the Dupplin Cross is displayed (Historic Scotland; open in ...

– 20 June 1765,

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) was a Scottish army commander in

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and

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during the

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, who led the British land forces in the capture of Dominica on 6 June 1761.

Life

Lord Rollo was the son of

Robert Rollo, 4th Lord Rollo Robert Rollo, 4th Lord Rollo (12 June 1679 – 8 March 1758) was a Scottish nobleman and Jacobite. Life Lord Rollo was the son of Andrew Rollo, 3rd Lord Rollo and his wife Margaret Balfour, daughter to John Balfour, 3rd Lord Balfour of Burleigh ...

(c. 1680–1758) and Mary Roll, daughter to Sir Henry Rollo of Woodside. He was commissioned into the army at the age of forty in order to fight during the

War of the Austrian Succession The War of the Austrian Succession () was a European conflict that took place between 1740 and 1748. Fought primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic and Mediterranean, related conflicts included King George's W ...

he fought at the

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in 1743, being promoted to Major in June 1750, and by 1756 he commanded the 22nd Regiment of Foot.

Seven Years' War

During the Seven Years' War, he was fighting since 1757 for the British in the Americas . He saw action in New York, Cape Breton Island, Sorel and Montreal. He led the Île Saint-Jean Campaign, which resulted in the capture of

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in 1758 and deportation of the French

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there. A bay on the island is still named after him. In 1760 he was raised to the rank of brigadier general. Lord Rollo Dominica 1761

On 3 May 1761 he sailed with his regiment from New York to the West Indies where he commanded the land forces at the attack on the French settlement of

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on 6 June, which he took with a force of only 2,500 men. After the capture he was made Commander-in-Chief of Dominica before the island was definitely ceded to Britain by the terms of the

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in 1763. During this period he took a prominent part in the British capture of Martinique and in the

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in 1762.

His health was severely affected by the climate, and he returned to England in 1762, dying at Leicester in 1765. He was interred at St Margaret's church in that city.Balfour Paul, vol vii, p206

Marriage and issue

He married on 24 April 1727, with Catherine Murray (died 28 July 1763), daughter of

Lord James Murray Lord James Murray (8 May 1663 – 30 December 1719), was a Scottish Member of Parliament. Murray was the third son of John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl, by Lady Amelia Anne Sophia, daughter of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, and was born at K ...

, and had 2 children: * Anna Rollo (1729–1746) * John Rollo, Master of Rollo (1736–1762) He remarried on 16 February 1765 to Elizabeth Moray and died 4 months later. As his only son had died before him, he was succeeded by his brother John Rollo.

Legacy

On Dominica, his name was given to ''Rollo's Head'' which had been called ''Pointe Ronde'' by the French, but the French name is still more commonly used today. His name was also given to ''Rollo Street'' in what was to be the British capital of Dominica at

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, and this street name still survives.

Rollo Bay, Prince Edward Island Rollo ( nrf, Rou, ''Rolloun''; non, Hrólfr; french: Rollon; died between 928 and 933) was a Viking who became the first ruler of Normandy, today a region in northern France. He emerged as the outstanding warrior among the Norsemen who had se ...

is also named after him.

References

Notes

Sources

James Balfour Paul, Balfour Paul, Sir J., ''Scots Peerage'' IX vols. Edinburgh 1904.

External links

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