Lancelot Rolleston (20 July 1785 – 18 May 1862)
was a British
Conservative Party
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politician.
He was elected unopposed
as a
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Southern division of Nottinghamshire at the
1837 general election. He was re-elected unopposed
in
1841 and
1847, and
resigned
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from the
House of Commons
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in 1849 by the procedural device of accepting the post of
Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.
His daughter Charlotte Frances Anne Rolleston (died January 1853) was married on 11 April 1840 to the
Whig politician
George Heneage
George Fieschi Heneage (22 November 1800 – 11 May 1864) was a British Whig and later Conservative Party politician.
Background
Heneage was the son of George Robert Heneage of Hainton Hall, Lincolnshire and Frances Anne, daughter of Lieutena ...
.
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1785 births
1862 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1837–1841
UK MPs 1841–1847
UK MPs 1847–1852
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