Robert Bolling (poet)

Robert Bolling (August 17, 1738 – July 21, 1775) was an American planter, poet and politician.

The great-grandson of Robert Bolling, he was born in Virginia and sent to England for his education.

On his return to Virginia, he studied law before taking over at Chellowe, a tobacco plantation operated with slave labor in Buckingham County which Bolling inherited from his father.

Bolling also wrote a book entitled A Memoir of a Portion of the Bolling Family in England and Virginia, which published posthumously in 1868; it was originally written in French and translated by a descendant of his brother.

[1][2] The cantata Virginiana was published by composer Gregory Spears in 2015, based on texts written by Bolling during his failed courtship of his cousin, Anne Miller, in 1760.