C.S. Rolls
The Honourable Charles Stewart Rolls (
August 27,
1877 -
July 12,
1910) was, together with
Frederick Henry Royce, a co-founder of the
Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm.He was born in
Berkeley Square,
London but retained a strong family connection with his ancestral home of
The Hendre, near
Monmouth,
Monmouthshire,
Wales. He was a son of the
1st Baron Llangattock. Rolls was educated at
Eton College and
Trinity College, Cambridge, and from his youth was interested in engines. He owned his first car at 18 - one of the very first three cars owned in Wales. Rolls was a big man. He stood about 6'5".
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