Name Launcelot Rolleston Occupation Gentleman, magistrate | Nationality English Died April 25, 1802 | |
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Parent(s) Revd. John Rolleston and Dorothy his Wife; | ||
Launcelot Rolleston (1737–1802) 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.
In 1762–3 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy commissioned a set of six portraits. 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.
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