- Albert Rollit
Sir Albert Kaye Rollit (1842 - 12 August 1922) was a British politician,
lawyer , and businessman.Born in Hull, he became a solicitor and went on to become president of the Law Society. He later became a shipowner. In 1886 he was elected as a Conservative
Member of Parliament for the South Islington constituency. In 1892 he put forward a private member's bill in favour ofwomen's suffrage , which failed narrowly. Having opposed Chamberlain's Tariff Reform proposals, he was defeated in the 1906 general election, and failed to get elected as a Liberal in Epsom in 1910. As a businessman he was well known on the Continent ofEurope and acted as consul-general forRomania from 1911 until his death. He was also amagistrate inBerkshire .Rollit married twice. His second wife was Mary,
dowager Duchess of Sutherland. He was her third husband. In 1898 her jewellery, then valued at £30,000, was stolen by international jewel-thief William Johnson, known as 'Harry the Valet'. Johnson stole the jewellery while she was travelling by train fromParis toLondon with her husband, (Rollit), her brother, his wife and the Duchess's footman and maid. The case was investigated by InspectorsWalter Dew , Walter Dinnie andFrank Froest .References
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* "The Times", 14 August 1922
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