Andrew Rollo, 13th of Duncrub and 5th Lord Rollo

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Andrew Rollo, 5th Lord Rollo, (November 18, 1703 - Leicester, June 20, 1765) was a Scottish army commander in Canada and Dominica during the Seven Years' War, who led the British land forces in the capture of Dominica on June 6, 1761.

Lord Rollo, of Duncrub in the County of Perth, is a Lordship of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland. Andrew Rollo was the 5th Lord Rollo, son of Robert Rollo, 4th Lord Rollo (c. 1680-1758) and Mary Rollo.

He married on April 24, 1727, with Catherine Murray (died July 28, 1763) and had 2 children

Anna Rollo (1729–1746)

John Rollo (1736–1762)

He remarried on February 16, 1765, with Elizabeth Moray and died 4 months later.

During the War of the Austrian Succession he fought for the British at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743, and by 1758 he commanded the British 22nd Regiment of Foot.

Seven Years' War

During the Seven Years' War, he was fighting since 1757 for the British in the Americas . He saw action in New York, Cape Breton Island, Sorel and Montreal. He led the Île Saint-Jean Campaign, which resulted in the capture of Prince Edward Island in 1758 and deportation of the French Acadians there. A bay on the island is still named after him. In 1760 he was raised to the rank of brigadier general.

On 3 May 1761 he sailed with his regiment from New York to the West Indies where he commanded the land forces at the attack on the French settlement of Roseau on 6 June, which he took with a force of only 2,500 men. After the capture he was made Commander-in-Chief of Dominica before the island was definitely ceded to Britain by the terms of the Treaty of Paris in 1763. During this period he took a prominent part in the British capture of Martinique and in the British expedition against Cuba in 1762. However, his health was severely affected by the climate, and he returned to England in 1762, dying at Leicester in 1765.

As his only son had died before him, he was succeeded by his brother John Rollo.

On Dominica, his name was given to Rollo's Head which had been called Pointe Ronde by the French, but the French name is still more commonly used today. His name was also given to Rollo Street in what was to be the British capital of Dominica at Portsmouth, and this street name still survives.

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

22 April 1727: Bond of relief by Andrew, Master of Rollo, to Robert, Lord Rollo, his father, and Mary, Lady Rollo, his mother, narrating that his father had disponed to him his lands and estate by a disposition [undated] and marriage contract, 21 April 1727, between the Master of Rollo and Katherine Murray, his future spouse, under the burdens of 12,000 merks of younger children's portions, viz, 5,000 merks to Henry Rollo, his second brother, by a bond of provision, 14 May 1727, in his favour, by Lord Rollo and Andrew, Master of Rollo, 4,000 merks to John Rollo, his third brother, under deduction of his apprentice fee, and 3,000 merks to Mary Rollo, his eldest sister, by a bond of provision of the date hereof; under the further burden of 4,900 merks due under two bonds by the said Lord Rollo to Margaret, Lady Dowager of Rollo, and 37,652 merks due by bonds of Robert, Lord Rollo, to other creditors, the said portions and debts extending to 54,552 merks; further narrating that Sir Henry Rollo of Woodside, his grandfather, had provided 18,000 merks to Mary, Lady Rollo, his mother, daughter of the said Sir Henry Rollo, in liferent and to Mary, James, Jean, Isobel and Clementine, his brother and sisters, in fee whereby his mother in the event of her surviving his father was burdened with the aliment of the children to succeed to the fee; and narrating that, in addition to above-mentioned debts, the said Robert, Lord Rollo, his father, was resting owing to Mary Rollo the sum of 1,000 merks advanced to him for her use by Mary Hope, Lady Moncreiff, and the sum of 1,000 or 700 merks due to Henry Bethune, jeweller in Edinburgh, as apprentice fee for the above John Rollo, also stipend due to Mr McIntosh, minister of Dunning, teinds, tack duties and feu duty for Easter Rossie and other debts to specified creditors; therefore the said Andrew, Master of Rollo, bound himself to relieve his father and mother of the payment of 1,000 merks due to Mary Rollo, his sister, the obligations granted to Henry Bethune, ministers stipend, teinds, tack and feu duties, 54,552 merks of portions and debts specified in the above-mentioned contract, and bound himself to aliment his brothers and sisters fiars in the 18,000 merks granted by Sir Henry Rollo of Woodside, in manner specified above in the event of the said Sir Henry surviving his father and mother. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Rollo family of Duncrub, Perthshire, reference GD56/107