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Very Rev. Cecil Henry Rolt
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1. Very Rev. Cecil Henry Rolt was born in 1865 in Limpsfield, Surrey; died on 14 Sep 1926 in Romford, Essex. 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_RoltCecil 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]
Children:
- 2. John Baynton Rolt
was born on 24 Oct 1913 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire; died in Jan 2000 in Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire.
- 3. Charles David Rolt
was born on 21 Jan 1915 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire; died on 8 Apr 1985 in Exeter, Devon.
- 4. Captain Cecil Francis Burney Rolt
was born on 22 Jun 1920 in South Africa; died on 6 Apr 1945 in Germany.
Generation: 2
2. John Baynton Rolt
(1.Cecil1) was born on 24 Oct 1913 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire; died in Jan 2000 in Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire.
Notes:
Registered in Huddersfield V 9a. Page 499. (FBMD)
Immigration & Travel.
14 July 1924. Arrival at Southampton, "SS Windsor Castle" from South Africa.
With parents and brothers.John married Ann Rachel Benita Fortescue-Brickdale on 14 Jul 1951 in Westminster, London. Ann (daughter of Matthew Fortescue-Brickdale, Knt. OBE and Cicely Muriel Bankes) was born on 19 Apr 1930 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire; died on 28 June, 2022. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
3. Charles David Rolt (1.Cecil1) was born on 21 Jan 1915 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire; died on 8 Apr 1985 in Exeter, Devon.
Charles married Penelope Eve Bradford in Jun 1960 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London. Penelope was born in Mar 1940 in Sevenoaks, Kent; died on 31 Dec 2006 in Kentish Town, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
4. Captain Cecil Francis Burney Rolt (1.Cecil1) was born on 22 Jun 1920 in South Africa; died on 6 Apr 1945 in Germany.
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]
Generation: 3
5. Mary Lavinia Constancia Rolt (2.John2, 1.Cecil1)
Mary married Timothy Massingham Seymour [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
6. Antony Baynton Francis Rolt (2.John2, 1.Cecil1)
Family/Spouse: Lorenza Bacino. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
7. Peter Matthew Burney Rolt (2.John2, 1.Cecil1)
Peter married Jill Potterton [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 14. Patrick Elliott Rolt
was born in 2006.
- 15. Matthew George Rolt
was born in 2008.
- 14. Patrick Elliott Rolt
8. Henry Mark Jonathan Rolt (2.John2, 1.Cecil1)
Henry married Marion Cameron Bensted [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 16. Lucy Mary Rolt
- 17. Edmund Rolt
- 18. John Rolt
- 19. Annie Rose Rolt
- 16. Lucy Mary Rolt
Generation: 4
10. Rosalind Susannah Seymour (5.Mary3, 2.John2, 1.Cecil1)
Rosalind married Charles Scrymgeour-Wedderburn [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]