Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth, PC was a British lawyer and Liberal politician. He twice served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Lord Cranworth wearing the parliamentary robes of a baron
Aberdeen ministry
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After the collapse of Lord Derby's minority government, the Whigs and Peelites formed a coalition under the Peelite leader George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen. The government resigned in earl
Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth
…and raised to the peerage as Baron Cranworth, of Cranworth in the County of Norfolk. In 1852 Lord Cranworth became Lord Chancellor in Lord Aberdeen's coalition ministry. In 1854, Cranworth was appointed to the Royal Commission for Consolidating the Statute Law, a royal commission to consolidate existing statutes and…
Aberdeen (circa 1847)
The Coalition Ministry of 1854 as painted by Sir John Gilbert (1855)