Samuel Rollinson

Samuel Rollinson was an English architect based in Chesterfield.

Family

He was the son of Samuel Rollinson and Lydia Wardman and baptised on 30 March 1827 in Chesterfield.
On 29 April 1850 he married Lavinia Heald in Bolsover, Derbyshire. This marriage produced the following children:

Charles Wardman Rollinson
Alfred E Rollinson
Walter Rollinson
Frederick S Rollinson
Arthur H Rollinson
Tom Rollinson
Edith L Robinson
Florence E Rollinson
Ernest Rollinson
Anthony Rollinson

On his death in 1891 he left an estate valued at £2,175 17s 3d.

Career

Initially he started work as a mason, and the clerk of the works to Chesterfield Grammar School. He then went as a pupil to Thomas Chambers Hine of Nottingham. When he returned to Chesterfield, he became surveyor of highways, and practiced privately as architect for new property on the estates of the Duke of Devonshire. One of his earliest projects was the north aisle of Hasland Church.
He set up a practice in Chesterfield and later entered into a partnership with his son, Arthur H. Rollinson, as S. Rollinson and Son.
He was architect to Brampton Brewery in Chesterfield. His son continued the business after Samuel’s death in 1891, designing many notable public houses in Chesterfield.