Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth

thumb| Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth, PC (18 December 1790 – 26 July 1868) was a British lawyer and Liberal politician. He twice served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Quotes It had even been the feeling of that House—indeed, it was a feeling common to mankind in general—that, although the sin in both cases was the same, the effect of adultery on the part of the husband was very different from that of adultery on the part of the wife. It was possible for a wife to pardon a husband who had committed adultery; but it was hardly possible for a husband ever really to pardon the adultery of a wife, and therefore it was that in their practice in that House their Lordships had always made a great distinction between the two cases. Remarks in the House of Lords (19 May 1857). Parliamentary Debates, 3rd ser., vol. 145, col. 490 External links Category:1790 births Category:1868 deaths Category:Judges from England Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Category:Lord Chancellors (United Kingdom) Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:People from Norfolk