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 Aston-on-Trent is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. The parish had a population of 1,682 at the 2011 Census. It is adjacent to Weston-on-Trent and near Chellaston, very close to the ...

and Dorothy his wife.Greaseley St Mary church monuments
accessed 12 June 2008 Rolleston's family seat was Watnall Hall in Nottinghamshire. 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.Markeaton Portrait
David Moore-Gwyn, Sothebys.com, accessed 7 June 2008

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rolleston, Launcelot 1737 births 1802 deaths People from Aston-on-Trent People from Derby