Rowland Belasyse ca.1668-1746

Rowland BELASYSE ca.1668-1746

Belasyse's bookplate (British Museum Franks Collection 2064)

Biographical Note

Fourth son of Sir Rowland Belasyse, of Smithills Hall, Bolton. A Roman Catholic in religion, he travelled in Italy around the turn of the eighteenth century and married Frances Roper, daughter of Christopher Roper, 5th Baron Teynham. He had a home in Winchester but died in Dunkirk.

Books

Belasyse used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 2064); the extent and disposition of his library are not known but the bulk of his estate would have passed to his eldest son Henry (d.1782).

Sources

• Landed families of Britain and Ireland.
• Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903-4.