Alexander Rolls

Major Alexander Rolls was a native of Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales. A member of the renowned Rolls family of The Hendre at LlangattockVibonAvel near Monmouth, Monmouthshire, his life in public service included four terms as Mayor of Monmouth. He was an officer in the Royal Monmouthshire Militia and the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards. Rolls married twice the widowers second marriage was to a divorce, English actress Helen Barry.

Alexander Rolls, second son of John Rolls and his wife Martha Maria Barnet Rolls, was born onJuly 1818 in Swansea, Wales. He was one of five children. His siblings were John Etherington Welch Rolls, Martha Sarah Rolls Macready, Jessy Rolls Harcourt , and Louisa Elizabeth Rolls Vaughan . As a child, Alexander Rolls was educated at the Harrow School in Harrow, Middlesex, England. He left there in 1834 and attended the University of Gttingen in Gttingen, Germany.

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