Lady Rollo
(1835-1906)
7 June 1861

Volume 4, page 32, sitting number 4197.

[The preceding sitting in the daybooks is this sitter's husband, Lord Rollo.]

Born Agnes Bruce Trotter on 26 April 1835 at Inchture in Perthshire, she was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Knox Trotter and Mary Rollo. On 15 October 1857 at the British embassy in Paris she married John Rogerson Rollo, 10th Lord Rollo of Duncrub in the peerage of Scotland. Her husband was the son of William Rollo, 9th Lord Rollo of Duncrub and Elizabeth Rogerson. The couple had nine children.

In 1869 Lord Rollo was created Baron Dunning, of Dunning and Pitcairns in the County of Perth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This title gave him an automatic seat in the House of Lords.

Lady Rollo died at Malvern on 2 May 1906.

A short obituary appeared in the Aberdeen Press and Journal (3 May 1906). 'News of the death of Lady Rollo of Dunning, Perthshire, at Malvern, was received at Dunning yesterday. Lady Rollo was the eldest daughter of Captain Robert Knox Trotter of Ballindean, and she married John Ferguson Rollo, Lord Rollo, in 1857. Along with her husband, she took a great interest in the estate and the surrounding district, and among the gifts given by Lord and Lady Rollo to the village of Dunning were a new public hall, with library, and a public park. Among other improvements in which they took a prominent share were a new and commodious manse, a new parish school and schoolhouse, and a new gravitation water supply.'