John Maclean Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock (25 April 1870 – 31 October 1916) was a British

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and army Major.

Biography

Rolls was son of

John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock, (19 February 1837 – 24 September 1912) was a British landowner, Conservative Party politician, socialite, local benefactor and agriculturalist. He lived at The Hendre, a Victorian country house ...

, and his wife Georgiana Marcia Maclean. He was born in

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, but his family home, The Hendre, was near

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. When Rolls reached the age of 21 his family gave the town a building to use as a gymnasium. Rolls was educated at

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, graduating B.A. in 1893 and M.A in 1896. He was a

of the

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, London, and served for many years with the 1st Monmouth Volunteer Artillery, retiring with the rank of captain and honorary major. In January 1915 he joined the

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. In 1900 he was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire, and

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in 1906–07. He was also a JP and deputy lieutenant and county councillor for Monmouthshire. He died on 31 October 1916, aged 46, from wounds received at the

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while serving as a major with the 1st Monmouthshire Bty

. He is buried at

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Eastern Cemetery in France. He never married; his younger brother Henry Allan Rolls, who was

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, had died four months previously, and his youngest brother,

Charles Rolls Charles Stewart Rolls (27 August 1877 – 12 July 1910) was a British motoring and aviation pioneer. With Henry Royce, he co-founded the Rolls-Royce Limited, Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeron ...

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fame, had died 6 years earlier; thus the title became extinct. Baron Llangattock's estate was valued at more than £1.1 million.

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30 November 1916; Issue 41338 His sister Eleanor Shelley-Rolls was the main beneficiary, and he bequeathed £100,000 to the

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of Monmouth. Upon his death The Hendre estate passed first to his sister, Eleanor (who died without issue), and finally through his aunt, Patricia Harding (née Rolls), to his first cousin, John Reginald Harding, whose descendants bear the surname Harding-Rolls.

Family tree

References

* Obituary,

2 November 1916; Issue 41314
CWGC casualty details
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