Francis Rogers (barrister)

James Rogers of Rainscombe, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, by his marriage to Catherine, youngest daughter and co-heir of Francis Newman, Esquire, of Cadbury House, Somerset.

[3] He married, on 29 June 1822, Julia Eleanora, third daughter of William Walter Yea, Esq., and sister of Sir William Walter Yea, Baronet, of Pyrland Hall, Somerset, by whom he had three sons and two daughters.

His second son was Edward Henry Rogers, and his daughters were Eleanora Amelia and Gertrude Jane.

Mr Justice Coleridge said of Rogers after his death We went to school together, we went to college together, we joined the Western Circuit nearly at the same time ... whilst in the discharge of his duty he sought to be kind and courteous to everyone he had to deal with ... in all the graver and more important duties he was found to be industrious, inflexible, and impartial ... at the same time tempering the administration of justice with a proper exercise of mercy.

The family motto is Nil conscire sibi, meaning "To have a guilt-free conscience".