John Maclean Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock (25 April 1870 – 31 October 1916) was a British barrister 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 Victorian 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 Monmouth. When Rolls reached the age of 21 his family gave the town a building to use as a gymnasium. Rolls was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B.A in 1893 and M.A in 1896. He was a barrister 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 Royal Field Artillery. 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 Battle of the Somme while serving as a major with the 1st Monmouthshire Bty Royal Field Artillery. He is buried at Boulogne 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,

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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 Eleanor Georgiana Shelley-Rolls (9 October 1872 – 15 September 1961) was one of the original signatories of the Women's Engineering Society founding documents. She was a keen hot air balloonist. Early life Rolls was born in Mayfair, London ...

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.

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References

* Obituary,

2 November 1916; Issue 41314
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