Very Rev. Cecil Henry Rolt

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 1 Jul 1865, Limpsfield, Surrey

Notes:

1911 CENSUS - Living at "The Vicarage" , Huddersfield. Occ. Vicar of Huddersfield.
1917 - 24 Dean of Cape Town, South Africa.
Visited Canada in 1924, departing Montreal on "Windsor Castle", arriving Southampton 17 July 1924.



Cecil Henry Rolt, MA (Oxon) was an eminent Anglican clergyman in the first half of the 20th century.

He was born into an ecclesiastical family in 1865 and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Ordained in 1888, he held curacies at St Thomas’s Sunderland, Christ Church West Hartlepool, St Hilda’s South Shields and St Cuthbert’s Bensham before becoming Vicar of Holy Trinity, Darlington. He later held further incumbencies in Batley and Huddersfield before his appointment as Dean of Cape Town. He died on 14 September 1926

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rolt

Cecil married Mary Foxley Norris on 30 Aug 1910 in St John the Baptist, Calderdale, Halifax, Yorkshire. Mary (daughter of Very Rev Dr William Foxley Norris and Mary Blanche Pott) was born on 5 Apr 1886 in Medway, Kent; died on 16 May 1959 in Braintree, Essex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Baynton Rolt was born on 24 Oct 1913 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire; died in Jan 2000 in Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire.
2. Charles David Rolt was born on 21 Jan 1915 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire; died on 8 Apr 1985 in Exeter, Devon.
3. Captain Cecil Francis Burney Rolt was born on 22 Jun 1920 in South Africa; died on 6 Apr 1945 in Germany.