Launcelot Rolleston Explained

Launcelot Rolleston
Birth Date:1737
Resting Place:Greasley St Mary
Nationality:English
Occupation:Gentleman, magistrate
Parents:Revd. John Rolleston and Dorothy his Wife;

Launcelot Rolleston should not be confused with Lancelot Rolleston.

Launcelot Rolleston (1737 – 25 August 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.[1] Rolleston's family seat was Watnall Hall in Nottinghamshire.[2]

In 1762–3 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy commissioned a set of six portraits of his friends in the Markeaton Hunt and one of these was Rolleston. 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.[3]

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20050518222451/http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/g02/hmonumnt.html Greaseley St Mary church monuments
  2. Web site: Portrait of Launcelot Rolleston (1737-1802), of Watnall Hall. Sotherbys. 30 March 2020.
  3. http://www.sothebys.com/liveauctions/sneak/archive/la_markeaton_0705.html Markeaton Portrait