Person DS/UK/3685 Rolle; Lord; John (1756-1842); Baron Rolle of Stevensone, Devon, MP Rolle John Lord Baron Rolle of Stevensone, Devon, MP 1756-1842 1780-1796 MP for Devon 1796 Ennobled as Baron Rolle 1797 inherits extensive estates, particularly in Devon Information taken from the University College London's 'Legacies of British Slave-ownership' website, 18 Feb 2021 John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle of Stevenstone, MP for Devon 1780-1796, son of Denys Rolle (1725-1797) of Stevenstone, the latter a landowner and MP and 'major colonial landowner in Florida'. The family was later granted land in the Bahamas as American loyalists. John Rolle left £300,000 in personalty. His heir was his second wife's nephew, Hon. Mark George Kerr Rolle (ne Trefusis) of Stevenstone. Baron Rolle was a title created twice, once for Henry Rolle (d. 1750) and a second time for John Rolle of this entry. John Rolle has an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as 'politician.' As well as describing Denys Rolle as a 'major colonial landowner in Florida', the entry says of John Rolle in relation to slavery: 'Except on parliamentary reform, he almost invariably backed Pitt, whose opposition to the slave trade he approved, even though he was heir to his father's plantation in the Bahamas which was compensation for the loss of his Florida estates in the American War of Independence...At first peeved [in the 1830s] by the effect on his Bahamas plantation of the anti-slavery campaign, he became reconciled to it.' Son of Denys Rolle International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Derbyshire Record Office Collections Manual Section 7 v5.1 (May 2020) Yes DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 18/02/2021 DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 18/02/2021 3db08a2b-9b87-447d-b128-506abb9205b8