Baron Llangattock

Baron Llangattock
The Hendre, the seat of the Rolls, and later Harding-Rolls family.
Creation date 1892
Monarch Queen Victoria
Peerage Peerage of the United Kingdom
First holder John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock
Present holder Extinct

Baron Llangattock, of the Hendre in the County of Monmouth,[1] was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1892 for John Rolls, Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire from 1880 to 1892. He was succeeded by his eldest son, John Maclean, the second Baron, who was killed in action at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. As John MacLean was unmarried and his two younger brothers had already died before him, the title became extinct up on his death. The family estates, including The Hendre in Monmouthshire, passed to Lord Llangatock's only sister, Eleanor Rolls. She was the wife of Sir John Shelley, 6th Baronet, of Castle Goring, who assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Rolls in 1917 (see Shelley Baronets). They had no children and The Hendre estate passed to the Harding-Rolls family, descended from Patricia Rolls, sister of the first Baron. This branch of the family lived at the estate until 1987.

The Honourable Charles Rolls, third and youngest son of the first Baron, was the co-founder of the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm.

Barons Llangattock (1892)

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