Robert Rolleston

British slave-trader, with voyages mainly from Liverpool but with five from London, one of the latter in partnership with Richard Miles (q.v.) and the others with a larger consortium including Christopher Chambers, the Parry family and Edmund Higginson, among others. In the will of his brother Christopher Rolleston of Watnall Notts., proved 19/09/1807 he was shown as of Mincing Lane, as was Christopher Rolleston's [and presumably Robert Rolleston's] nephew Lancelot Chambers. David Hancock shows him as part of the 'Sargent circle' through George Aufrere.

1. The will of Robert Rolleston of Camberwell was proved 31/01/1826. In the simple will he left his [unspecified] property equally between his children [Rev.] George Rolleston, Frances Rolleston and Lucy Rolleston. [Rev. George Rolleston was Vicar of Maltby and of Stainton, Yorks. 1816-1868].

2. Robert Rolleston married the composer and musician Jane Savage in 1793; one of her father's former pupils described Rolleston as 'a respectable merchant of Mincing Lane.'

PROB 11/1467/225; Hancock Citizens of the World p. 11.

1. PROB 11/1710/374.

2. https://spot.colorado.edu/~hayesd/Classic%20Women/savage.html [accessed 14/03/2022].