John Rolleston (British politician)
British politician
Intro | British politician | |
Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
was | Politician | |
Work field | Politics | |
Gender |
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Birth | 1 January 1848 | |
Death | 1 January 1919 (aged 71 years) | |
Politics: | Conservative Party |
Sir John Fowke Lancelot Rolleston JP DL (1848–1919), was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He was educated at Repton School and King's College London. He was a keen Conservative and the leader of his party in Leicester, where, after being twice defeated at the poll, he was elected Member of Parliament in 1900. He sat for Leicester until 1906 when he was again defeated by the Liberal-Labour coalition. He was subsequently elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Hertford in January 1910 and held the seat until 1916. He was knighted in 1897.