Baron Llangattock, of the Hendre in the County of Monmouth, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1892 for John Rolls

John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock

John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock, DL owned The Hendre, a Victorian mansion north of Monmouth.- Biography :He was the only son of John Etherington Welch Rolls and his wife Elizabeth Mary Long...

, Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Monmouthshire

Monmouthshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Monmouthshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of Parliament of England from 1536 until 1707, of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1801, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885...

 from 1880 to 1892. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He was killed in action at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He was unmarried and the title became extinct on his death. The family estates, including The Hendre

The Hendre

The Hendre is Monmouthshire's only full-scale Victorian country house, constructed in the Victorian Gothic style...

 in Monmouthshire

Monmouthshire

Monmouthshire is a county in south east Wales. The name derives from the historic county of Monmouthshire which covered a much larger area. The largest town is Abergavenny. There are many castles in Monmouthshire .-Historic county:...

, passed to Lord Llangatock's only sister, Eleanor Rolls. She was the wife of Sir John Shelley, 6th Baronet, of Castle Goring, who assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Rolls in 1917 (see Shelley Baronets

Shelley Baronets

There have been three Baronetcies created for members of the Shelley family, one in the Baronetage of England and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The three recipients of the titles represented two different branches of the family with a common ancestor in John Shelley of Michelgrove...

). They had no children and The Hendre estate passed to the Hardinge-Rolls family, descended from Patricia Rolls, sister of the first Baron. This branch of the family lived at the estate until 1987.

The Honourable Charles Rolls

Charles Rolls

Charles Stewart Rolls was a motoring and aviation pioneer. Together with Frederick Henry Royce he co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in a flying accident, when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display near Bournemouth,...

, third and youngest son of the first Baron, was the co-founder of the Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce Limited

Rolls-Royce Limited was a renowned British car and, from 1914 on, aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Charles Stewart Rolls and Henry Royce on 15 March 1906 as the result of a partnership formed in 1904....

 car manufacturing firm.

Barons Llangattock (1892)

• John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock
  John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock
  John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock, DL owned The Hendre, a Victorian mansion north of Monmouth.- Biography :He was the only son of John Etherington Welch Rolls and his wife Elizabeth Mary Long...
  
   (1837–1912)
• John Maclean Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock
  John Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock
  John Maclean Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock was a British barrister and army Major.Son of John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock and his wife Georgiana Marcia Maclean, he was born in London and educated at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B.A in 1893 and M.A in 1896.He was a Barrister of the Inner...
  
  (1870–1916)