Sir Roger Lort, 1st Baronet (or Lorte) (1607/8–1664) was a Welsh

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poet.

Life

He was the eldest son of Henry Lorte of Stackpole Court in the parish of St Petrox,

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. On 3 November 1626 he matriculated

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; he had been in the college since 1624, joined in 1625 by his brother Sampson Lort. He graduated B.A. on 11 June 1627, and during the same year became a student of the

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. On the outbreak of the

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, Lort aided the

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in promoting the royalist cause in

. On 19 April 1643 the House of Commons ordered that he be sent for as a delinquent. He eventually made submission, and after consenting to serve on the parliamentary committees for Pembrokeshire,

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, and

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, he was freed from all delinquency, and restored to his estate and goods. In March 1649 Lorte with his brother Sampson undertook to victual ships that arrived at

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. Lort was active as a Justice of the Peace and committee man until 1656. When the

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was imminent he declared himself royalist again. He was rewarded with a

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on 31 January 1662. He died in 1664, and was buried in St Petrox church.

Works

In 1646 Lort published in London a slender ''Epigrammatum liber primus''. Christopher Ocland was an influence.

Family

Lort married, first, by license dated 3 May 1632, Hester Annesley, daughter of Francis Annesley, 2nd Viscount Valentia. His second wife Joan, daughter of Humphrey Wyndham of

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, who later remarried, to Sir Edward Mansel. Lort left two sons and four daughters, and his son John (1637?–1678) succeeded him.

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Lort, Roger, Sir Year of birth missing 1664 deaths Welsh poets Neo-Latin poets People from Pembrokeshire Cavaliers