the surname of Walter on succeeding to the estates of his maternal uncle. William Rolle (1720-post 1747), 3rd son, of Beam, Great Torrington, whose will was dated 1747. Denys Rolle (1725–1797), 4th son and eventual heir, of Hudscott, Stevenstone and Bicton in Devon and East Tytherley in Hampshire, an independent Member of Parliament for Barnstaple, Devon, between 1761 and 1774. He was the largest landowner in Devon, with a rent-roll of £40,000 per annum. His eldest son was John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1751–1842). Christiana Maria Rolle, eldest daughter, who married Henry Stevens of Winscott, Peters Marland, Devon. Isabella Charlotte Rolle, 2nd daughter, wife of Robert Duke (d.pre-1785), the last male of the Duke family, lords of the manor of Otterton in Devon. The extensive lands of the Dukes, which adjoined the Rolle seat of Bicton in South Devon, were purchased in 1786 by Isabella's brother Denys. John's elder brother Robert Rolle (d.1726) had married Elizabeth Duke (born 1679), a daughter of Richard Duke (born 1653) of Otterton, Robert Duke's grandfather. Letitia Rolle, 3rd daughter Lucy Rolle (1715–1741) Lucilla Rolle (1717–1741) Anne Rolle (1721–1721), died an infant Maria Philippa (1729–1730), died an infant Death and burial Rolle died on 6 May 1730 and was buried at St Giles in the Wood, the parish church of Stevenstone. His obituary praised him as "a gentleman of great candour and honour". Sources Cruickshanks, Eveline, biography of John Rolle (1679–1730) published in History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690–1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 2002 Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., The Visitations of the County of Devon, Exeter, 1895, pp. 652–656, Rolle of Stevenstone References 1679 births 1730 deaths John English MPs 1702–1705 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Exeter British MPs 1710–1713 British MPs 1713–1715 British MPs 1715–1722 British MPs 1722–1727 British MPs 1727–1734 Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Barnstaple Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Devon