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Lady Romilly died in December 1856. Lord Romilly died in London on 23 December 1874, aged 72, and was succeeded in the barony his eldest son, William. He is buried in
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Hon. Henry Romilly (1845–1886), who married Edith Rathbone, eldest daughter of Bernard Rathbone, in 1878. After his death in 1886, she married
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Hon. Arthur Romilly, barrister (1850–1884), who married Flora Schellbach (d. 1937), second daughter of Prof Schellbach of Berlin, in 1877.
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Argent in base a rock with nine points issuant from each a lily all Proper on a chief Azure a crescent between two mullets of the first.
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Through his son Edward, he was a grandfather of Sybil Edith Mary Romilly (b. 1880), who married her cousin Admiral Sir
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Hon. Edward Romilly (1838–1886), a barrister who married Edith Mary Cowie (d. 1880), second daughter of
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Through his son Henry, he was a grandfather of Sophie Katherine Romilly (1879–1904).
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and the former Anne Garbett, a daughter of Francis Garbett of Knill Court,
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Lord Romilly married Caroline Charlotte, daughter of the Right Reverend
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could be claimed in immovable property overseas against a third party.
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Hon. Anne Romilly (d. 1913), who married Clement Tudway Swanston
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from 1850 and 1851. The latter year he was appointed
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Lord Romilly
Romilly John
The Right Honourable
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Master of the Rolls
Victoria
The Lord Langdale
Sir George Jessel
Whig
Sir Samuel Romilly
Alma mater
Trinity College, Cambridge
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Whig
Lord John Russell's
Solicitor-General
Attorney-General
Master of the Rolls
Sir Samuel Romilly
Herefordshire
Solicitor-General for England and Wales
Member of Parliament
Horsham
Wareham
Arundel
Westminster
Thomas Francis Kennedy
Ayr Burghs
John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford

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