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The New Vice-Chancellor, Sir R. M. Rolfe, 1850. Portrait of British lawyer and politician Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth. 'As a judge, both in the courts of law and equity, Sir Robert Rolfe enjoys a high and deserved reputation. His perfect temper and courtesy, his thorough knowledge of his art in all its branches, his ready application of it on all occasions, and his wonderful quickness in apprehending the facts and bearings of every case before him, render his services invaluable on the bench. He is indeed a complete impersonation of that intellectual and impartial justice of which we read in the histories of Greece and Rome, but which probably has never so really existed anywhere as in England'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.