Lady Cranworth
(1808-1868)

Laura Carr was the youngest daughter of Thomas William Carr of Frognal, Hampstead.  In 1845 she married Robert Monsey Rolfe, Lord Cranworth, when he was ‘already pretty well advanced in age’ (The Times, 28 July 1868).

Lady Laura Cranworth and her husband appear on the 1861 census at their house, Holwood Hill, at Keston in Kent. Lady Cranworth gave Bloomsbury as her place of birth. Also present on the night of the census were an unmarried niece, Isabelle M. Eardley, and twelve servants, including a butler, a footman and a coachman.

Lady Laura Cranworth died, aged 60, on 15 February 1868 at 40 Upper Brook Street, London. Her husband died five months later at the same address. According to his obituary in the Times (28 July 1868): ‘He felt her loss deeply at the time; he has not long survived her; and in a few days Lord Cranworth’s remains will be placed by the side of hers in the little village churchyard which adjoins his seat of Holwood, near Bromley, in Kent.’