Captain Cecil Francis Burney Rolt

Notes:

Killed in action aged 24
Buried at Becklingen War cemetery Plot 10 Row J Grave 10

Cecil Francis Burney Rolt was born in South Africa on the 22nd of June 1920 the youngest son of the Very Reverend Cecil Henry Rolt, Dean of Cape Town in South Africa, and Mary (nee Foxley-Norris) Rolt of Terling in Essex.

He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Heads House from September 1933 to July 1937. He was a member of the Cricket XI in 1937 and was appointed as a Prefect the same year.
He went on to Grenoble University.
He was known by the nickname of Nick

He attended the Royal Military College Sandhurst and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Armoured Corps on the 7th of December 1940.

The 23rd Hussars landed in Normandy equipped with Sherman tanks but in January 1945 they re-equipped with Comet (95mm gunned) Cromwell tanks.

According to records they lost two tanks in early April when both were hit in their engine compartments around morning teatime

He married Hon Lavinia Mary Yolande (nee Lyttleton) on the 15th of February 1945. Following his death she remarried, in 1949, to Major John Edward Dennys MC.

He is commemorated on the memorial at the Royal Military College Sandhurst.
Burial place :- Heidekreis, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) Germany.

Probate : - Llandudno 12 Jan 1945 to Lavinia Mary Yoland Rolt widow.
Effects £430 4s.

Cecil married Lavinia Mary Yolande Lyttleton on 15 Feb 1945 in St George Hanover Square, London. Lavinia (daughter of John Cavendish Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham and Violet Yolande Leonard) was born on 21 Aug 1921; died on 4 Jul 2007. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 May 1885, St Mary, Catham, Kent

Notes:

Father Very Rev. William Foxley - Norris, Dean of Westminister, until 1936 & previously Dean of York.
Buried in Westminster Abbey.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1901, Almondbury, Yorkshire; Age: 42; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Halifax, Yorkshire; Age: 52; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

Son of Canon William Foxley Norris, vicar of Witney, Oxon, by Julia, daughter of Henry Thomas Monro, MD. Educated at Charterhouse, Surrey, 1873-7, matric. at Oxford (Trinity College) 12 October 1877, 3rd class theology and BA 1881, MA 1884, DD 1917, Student at Leeds Clergy School, 1881. Buried in Westminster Abbey.

Deacon 1882; Priest 1883; Curate of Eton, Bucks., 1882-5; Curate of St. Mary, Chatham, 1885-7; Vicar of Shirburn, Oxon., 1887-8; Vicar of Almondbury, Yorks., 1888-91; Rector of Barnsley, Yorks., 1901-9; Canon resident of Wakefield 1909-17; Archdeacon of Halifax 1906-17; Dean of York 1917-25; Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation of York 1919.

Dean of Westminster from 1925; Vice-chairman 1922-5, Chairman 1925-9, of the House of Clergy of The National Assembly. Provost of the Northern Division of the "Woodard" schools from 1906. F.S.A., Hon. A.R.I.B.A.,Hon. Chaplain to the Royal Academy from 1925. Dean of the Order of the Bath from 1926. Chaplain to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem from 1921. A chaplain in the Territorial Army. An Ecclesiastical Commissioner.

A member of Nobody's Friends from 1916 and of the Athenaeum Club, London.

Portrait by his son Arthur.



Dean of Westminster from 1925 until his death in 1937. An exceptionally talented artist he wrote widely on Church treasures whilst Dean of Westminster.
A much respected cleric he died on 28 September 1937 and his ashes buried in the nave in Westminster Abbey.

Also, was a Trustee of Speke Hall, Liverpool: later passing to the National Trust.

(Rolt family allowed weddings in Henry VII Chapel.)

For more informations see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Foxley_Norris

William married Mary Blanche Pott on 17 Apr 1884 in Sonning, Berkshire. Mary (daughter of Ven. Archdeacon Alfred Percivall Pott and Emily Harriett Gibbs) was born on 31 Dec 1858 in Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire; died on 15 Aug 1940 in Trent, Dorset; was buried in Aug 1940 in Trent, Dorset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 23 Jan 1859, Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1871, London
• Residence: 1881, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire

Notes:

Baptised at Cuddesdon, Oxon 23 January 1859. Buried at Trent, Dorset.

2 sons and 2 daughters.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 9 Mar 1825, Holy Trinity, Chester, Cheshire

William married Julia Monro on 30 Dec 1851 in All Souls, St. Marylebone, London. Julia (daughter of Henry Thomas Monro) was born in 1822 in London; died in Apr 1908 in Witney, Oxfordshire; was buried on 30 Apr 1908 in Filkins, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Clergyman Archdeacon Of Berks
• Residence: Oxford, Oxfordshire
• Admission: 6 Dec 1810; Freedom of the City 0f London
• Baptism: 1 Apr 1823, St George the Martyr, Bloomsbury, Middlesex
• Residence: 1861, East Hendred, Berkshire
• Residence: 1871, London; Age: 48; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1881, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; Age: 58; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Head
• Residence: 1901, Windlesham, Surrey

Notes:

Son of Charles Pott, merchant of London, by Anne, daughter of Samuel Compton Cox, Master in Chancery. Baptised 1 April 1823 at St. George's, Bloomsbury. Educated at Eton College 1836-41, matric. at Oxford 15 December. 1840 (Balliol College), 2nd Class Classics 1843, BA 1844, MA 1847, BD 1854. Demy of Magdalen College, 1843-53. Fellow thereof 1853. Buried 3 March 1908 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there and Memorial window in the Church. Memorial Inscription in Sonning Church, Berkshire. Will dated 2 February 1903. Proved 19 March 1908.

Deacon 1845; Priest 1846. Curate of Cuddesdon, co. Oxon.; Vicar thereof and Principal of the Theological College there 1852-7; Rector of East Hendred, Berks., 1857; Vicar of Abingdon, Berks., 1867; Archdeacon of Berks. 1869-1903. Vicar of Clifton Hampden 1875-82 (presented by Henry H. Gibbs). His parsonage there is now the Manor House. Vicar of Sonning, Berks., 1882-99. His Life is in the Dictionary National Biography.

Portrait by Sir W. B. Richmond in last possession of his son The Rev. Alfred Pott.

Buried:
Age: 85

Died:
Woodside

Alfred married Emily Harriett Gibbs on 5 Jul 1855 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. Emily (daughter of Rev. Joseph Gibbs and Emily Vaughan) was born on 7 May 1834 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; died on 21 Jan 1903 in Windlesham, Surrey; was buried on 26 Jan 1903 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Clergymans Wife
• Baptism: 1 Jun 1834, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1851, Wraxall, Somerset; Visitor
• Residence: 1861, East Hendred, Berkshire
• Residence: 1871, Abingdon St Helen, Abingdon, Berkshire; Age: 36; Relationship: Wife
• Residence: 1881, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire; Age: 46; Marital Status: Married; Relationship to Head: Wife
• Residence: 1891, Sussex; Visitor
• Residence: 1901, Windlesham, Surrey
• Death: 21 Jan 1903, Chertsey, Surrey

Notes:

Baptised at Clifton Hampden 1 June 1834. Buried 26 January 1902 at Clifton Hampden. Memorial Inscription in churchyard there.

Died:
Woodside