Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Lorte, Roger

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1448805Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 34 — Lorte, Roger1893Gordon Goodwin ‎

LORTE, Sir ROGER (1608–1664), Latin poet, born in 1608, was eldest son of Henry Lorte of Stackpole Court in the parish of St. Petrox, Pembrokeshire. On 3 Nov. 1626 he matriculated at Oxford from Wadham College, graduated B.A. on 11 June 1627, and during the same year became a student of the Middle Temple (Foster, Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714, iii. 939). Upon the outbreak of the civil war Lorte aided the Earl of Carbery in promoting the royal cause in Pembrokeshire (Phillips, Civil War in Wales, i. 164). On 19 April 1643 the House of Commons ordered that he be forthwith sent for as a delinquent (Commons' Journals, iii. 52). He eventually made submission, and after consenting to serve on the parliamentary committees for Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, and Cardiganshire, he was freed from all delinquency, and restored to his estate and goods (ib. iii. 570). In March 1649 Lorte along with his brother Sampson, undertook to victual all ships that arrived at Milford or Tenby (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1649–50, p. 39). He was actively engaged as a justice of the peace or a committee man until 1656 (ib. 1649–50 pp. 181, 574, 1655 pp. 94, 287), but when the Restoration seemed inevitable he became loyal again and was rewarded with a baronetcy on 31 Jan. 1662 (ib. 1661–2, p. 260). He died in 1664, and was buried in St. Petrox church (will proved on 4 May 1664, registered in P.C.C. 143, Bruce). He married, first, by license dated 3 May 1632, Hester Annesley, daughter of Francis, lord Mount Norris (Chester, London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster, col. 859), and secondly, Joan, daughter of Humphrey Wyndham of Dunraven, Glamorganshire, who remarried Sir Edward Mansel, and left two sons and four daughters. His son John (1637?–1678) succeeded him. In 1646 Lorte published at London a slender quarto, now excessively rare, entitled ‘Epigrammatum liber primus.’ Of this book, which Wood was unable to find, there is a copy in the British Museum. The epigrams are not destitute of point.

[Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), iii. 232; Burke's Extinct Baronetage, p. 322; Gardiner's Registers of Wadham Coll. pt. i. p. 76; Phillips's Civil War in Wales; Hazlitt's Collections and Notes, 2nd ser. p. 366.]

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