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 Sampson Lort was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659. Lort was the second son of Henry Lort of Stackpole, Pembrokeshire and his wife Judith White, daughter of Henry White of Henllam, Pembrokeshire. In 1659, he was elected ...

. 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 Earl of Carbery 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, Carmarthenshire, 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

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and committee man until 1656. When the English Restoration was imminent he declared himself royalist again. He was rewarded with a baronetcy 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''.

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was an influence.

Family

Lort married, first, by license dated 3 May 1632, Hester Annesley, daughter of

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. His second wife Joan, daughter of Humphrey Wyndham of

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, Glamorganshire, who later remarried, to

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. Lort left two sons and four daughters, and his son John (1637?–1678) succeeded him.

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