 robert monsey rolfe, 1st baron cranworth pc (18 december 1790 â 26 july 1868) was a british lawyer and liberal politician. he twice served as lord high chancellor of great britain. ==background and education== born at cranworth, norfolk, he was the elder son of the reverend edmund rolfe and jemima alexander, james alexander, 1st earl of caledon's niece and a grand-daughter of physician messenger monsey (1693-1788).rolfe was related to admiral lord horatio nelson,"east anglian worthies", by john lucius smith-dampier, publiished by b. blackwell, 1949, p .165. he was educated at bury st edmunds, winchester, trinity college, cambridge, downing college, cambridge (of which he was elected fellow) http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personid=i104362&tree=nixon and was called to the bar, lincoln's inn, in 1816. ==legal and political career== cranworth represented penryn and falmouth in parliament from 1832 until he was appointed a baron of the exchequer in 1839. in 1850 he was appointed a vice-chancellor and raised to the peerage 
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