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Admitted 1 May, 1822.

Only son of William Robinson of Tottenham, co. Middlesex. He originally practised as a London solicitor. He was much interested in local antiquities and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 1819, and received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Aberdeen 1822. He was called to the Bar 25 May, 1827. He died 1 June, 1848, at Tottenham, where he possessed property, and of which place, as well as of the adjacent districts of Edmonton, Stoke Newington, Enfield, and Hackney, he has left historical accounts. Besides these he wrote several law treatises including The Magistrate's Pocket Book (1825); The Laws relating to the Poor (1827); and a work on Quarter Sessions (1836).

ROCHESTER, EARL OF. See HYDE, LAURENCK

Admitted 16 December, 1843.

Eldest son of William Stanley Roscoe of Liverpool (and grandson of William Roscoe, the historian). He was born at Liverpool 20 Sept. 1823, and educated at University College, London. He was called to the Bar 8 Nov. 1850; but soon took to literary pursuits and became a contributor to the National Review, of which his brother-in-law, Mr. Hutton, was editor. He died 30 July, 1859.

His compositions, consisting of two Tragedies, Eliduc and Violenzia, fugitive poems and essays, were collected and published by Mr. Hutton, with a Memoir, in 1860, and again, without the prose works, in 1891, by his daughter.

ROSCOMMON, EARL OF. See DILLON, WENTWORTH.

Admitted 5 May, 1601.

Fourth son of Anthony Rous of Halton, co. Cornwall, born at Dittisham, Devonshire, 1579. He was educated at Oxford, where he graduated in 1596, and afterwards at Leyden. In 1625 he entered Parliament, where he became at first a staunch adherent of the Presbyterian party, but subsequently went over to the Independents, and in 1657 was made one of Cromwell's Lords of Parliament. He died at Acton 7 Jan. 1658-9, and was buried in Eton College Chapel.

He was the author of a great number of theological and other treatises, chiefly of a controversial character of which the following are the chief: Thule, or the Vertues' Historie, a Poem (1598); The Art of Happiness (1619); Diseases of the Time attended by their Remedies (1622); The Oile of Scorpions (1623); Testis Veritatis (1626); The Heavenly Academy (1638); Mella Patrum Nascentis Ecclesiæ per prima tria secula collecta (1650); Interiora Regni Dei (1655); Works, or Treatises and Meditations (1647) (with a portrait of the author by Fairthorne). Many of his Speeches are preserved in Rushworth's Collections.