Edward Rolt

Rolt was the only son of Sir Thomas Rolt of Sacombe and Harrowby and his wife Mary Cox, daughter of Dr Thomas Coxe of Christ Church, London, physician in ordinary to Charles II.

Rolt matriculated at Merton College, Oxford on 7 November 1701, aged 15[1] and was admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 14 October 1702.

[3] Rolt was returned unopposed as Tory Member of Parliament for St Mawes at the 1713 British general election on the recommendation of Francis Scobell, He made little recorded contribution in Parliament, although in March and April 1714 he helped manage a bill for the repair of a Wiltshire road.

[3] Rolt was returned in a contest at the 1715 British general election as Tory MP for Grantham, where he owned property.

He was defeated at Grantham at the 1722 British general election, but was returned for Chippenham, where his wife had inherited an estate said to be worth nearly £3,000 a year from her brother John Bayntun in 1716.