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- Denys_III_Rolle_(1725-1797) abstract "Denys III Rolle (1725-1797) of Hudscott, Stevenstone and Bicton in Devon and East Tytherley in Hampshire, was an independent Member of Parliament for Barnstaple, Devon, between 1761 and 1774. He was the largest landowner in Devon, with a rent-roll of £40,000 per annum. He was a philanthropist and generous benefactor to charities and religious societies. He was a modest man, considered eccentric, whose favourite pastime was to perform the work of a common farm-labourer. He was puritannical in morals, opposing ale-houses, cock-fighting and bear-baiting. He was humane and tender towards animals and claimed a special kinship with wildlife. He spent much of his life attempting to establish an "ideal society", a Utopian colony of poor, homeless or criminal English persons on about 80,000 acres in Florida named Rollestown or Charlotta. On the failure of that venture he turned to slave labour, and on the loss of Florida as a British possession moved his colony to a smaller site on Exuma in the Bahama Islands. He was deemed by many to be stubborn, high-handed, irascible, litigious, and a megalomaniac, even stupid, and lacking diplomatic skills.".
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- Denys_III_Rolle_(1725-1797) subject Category:Explorers_of_Florida.
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- Denys_III_Rolle_(1725-1797) subject Category:Rolle_family.
- Denys_III_Rolle_(1725-1797) comment "Denys III Rolle (1725-1797) of Hudscott, Stevenstone and Bicton in Devon and East Tytherley in Hampshire, was an independent Member of Parliament for Barnstaple, Devon, between 1761 and 1774. He was the largest landowner in Devon, with a rent-roll of £40,000 per annum. He was a philanthropist and generous benefactor to charities and religious societies. He was a modest man, considered eccentric, whose favourite pastime was to perform the work of a common farm-labourer.".
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