CRANWORTH, ROBERT MONSEY ROLFE, BARON (179o–I868), lord chancellor of England, elder son of the Rev. E. Rolfe, was born at Cranworth, Norfolk, on Dec. 18, 1790. Educated at Bury St. Edmund's, Winchester, and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1816, and attached himself to the chancery courts. He represented Penryn and Falmouth in parliament from 1832 till his promotion to the bench as baron of the exchequer in 1839. In 185o he was appointed a vice-chancellor and created Baron Cranworth, and in 1852 he became lord chancellor in Aberdeen's ministry. He continued to hold the chancellorship in the administration of Palmerston until the latter's resignation in 18J7. He was not reappointed when Palmerston returned to office in 18J9, but on the retirement of Lord Westbury in 1865 he accepted the great seal for a second time, and held it till the fall of the Russell administration in 1866. Cranworth died in London on July 26, 1868. His name is asso ciated in the statute book with a measure of conveyancing. He left no issue and the barony became extinct on his death.