CRAN WORTH

Robert Monsey Rolfe , 1 Baron ( elder son of Rev. Edmund Rolfe, R. of Cockley Cley, Norfolk, who d. 24 July 1795 ). b. Cran worth, Norfolk 18 Dec. 1790; ed. at Bury school, Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam., 17 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; fellow of Downing coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 21 May 1816, bencher 1832; recorder of Bury St. Edmunds about 1830; K.C. Aug. 1832; M.P. for Penryn 1832–39; solicitor general 6 Nov. to 20 Dec. 1834 and 30 April 1835 to 11 Nov. 1839; baron of Court of Exchequer 11 Nov. 1839 to 2 Nov. 1850; one of comrs. of the Great Seal 19 June to 15 July 1850; vice chancellor 2 Nov. 1850; P.C. 13 Nov. 1850; created Baron Cran worth of Cran worth, co. Norfolk 20 Dec. 1850 being the first and only instance of a vice chancellor receiving dignity of a peer; one of the two lords justices of appeal in chancery 8 Oct. 1851; lord chancellor 28 Dec. 1852 to 26 Feb. 1858 and 7 July 1865 to 6 July 1867. d. 40 Upper Brook st. London 26 July 1868. bur. Keston churchyard. Men of the time British statesmen (1854) 251–58; Law mag. and law review xxvi , 278–84 (1869); The British cabinet in 1853 pp. 251–58; I.L.N. xvii , 357 (1850), portrait , xxx , 109 (1857), portrait , liii , 114, 153 (1868), portrait . CRAUFURD, Edward Henry John ( eld. son of John Craufurd 1780–1867, secretary to senate of Ionian islands ). b. 9 Dec. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1840, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1845; admitted barrister M.T. 10 April 1854; edited The Legal Examiner 1852; M.P. for Ayr district 22 July 1852 to 26 Jany. 1874; author of Advocacy in county courts . d. Por ten cro , Ayrshire 29 Aug. 1887.