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BARON ROBERT MONSEY ROLFE CRANWORTH (...

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 379 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON See also:ROBERT MONSEY ROLFE See also:CRANWORTH (1790-1868)  , See also:lord See also:chancellor of See also:England, See also:elder son of the Rev . E . Rolfe, was See also:born at See also:Cranworth, See also:Norfolk, on the 18th of See also:December 179o . Educated at See also:Bury St See also:Edmunds, See also:Winchester, and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, he was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1816, and attached himself to the See also:chancery courts . He represented See also:Penryn and See also:Falmouth in See also:parliament from 1832 till his promotion to the See also:bench as See also:baron of the See also:exchequer in 1839 . In 1850 he was appointed a See also:vice-chancellor and created Baron Cranworth, and in 1852 he became lord chancellor in See also:Aberdeen's See also:ministry . He continued to hold the chancellorship in the See also:administration of See also:Palmerston until the latter's resignation in 1857 . He was not reappointed when Palmerston returned to See also:office in 1859, but on the retirement of Lord See also:Westbury in 1865 he accepted the See also:great See also:seal for a second See also:time, and held it till the fall of the See also:Russell administration in 1866 . Cranworth died in See also:London on the 26th of See also:July 1868 . Never a very zealous See also:law reformer, Cranworth's name is associated in the See also:statute See also:book with only one small measure on See also:conveyancing . But as a See also:judge he will continue to hold first See also:rank . His judgments were marked by See also:sound See also:common sense, while he himself was remarkably See also:free from the prejudices of his profession .

Few men of his See also:

day enjoyed greater See also:personal popularity than Cranworth . He See also:left no issue and the See also:title became See also:extinct on his See also:death . See The Times, 27th of July 1868; E . See also:Manson, The Builders of our Law (1904) ; E . See also:Foss, The See also:Judges of England (1848—1864) ; J . B . Atlay, Lives of the Chancellors, vol. ii . (1908) .

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