Launcelot Rolleston

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name = Launcelot Rolleston


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birth_date = 1737
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death_date = 25 April 1802
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resting_place = Greasley St Mary
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residence = Watnall Hall
nationality =English
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occupation = Gentleman, magistrate
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parents = Revd. John Rolleston and Dorothy his Wife;
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Launcelot Rolleston (1737–1802) was a member of the Markeaton hunt.

Biography

Rolleston was born in 1737, the son of John Rolleston, the minister at Aston-on-Trent and Dorothy his wife. [ [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/g02/hmonumnt.html Greaseley St Mary church monuments] accessed 12 June 2008]

In 1762–3 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy commissioned a set of six portraits. Each of the subjects was in the distinctive dress of the Markeaton Hunt, consisting of a blue coat over a scarlet waistcoat and yellow breeches. These paintings hung at Mundy's ancestral home, Markeaton Hall. [ [http://www.sothebys.com/liveauctions/sneak/archive/la_markeaton_0705.html Markeaton Portrait] , David Moore-Gwyn, Sothebys.com, accessed 7 June 2008]

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