Roffe engraving families of London


There appear to be two Roffe families of engravers in London, England in the 18th and 19th centuries.

John and Richard Roffe

John Roffe was a noted architectural engraver who often worked with a Richard Roffe. It is thought that Richard was the brother of John. Their parents, are Thomas Roffe 1725-1794 and Mary Field Alcock 1735 - 1795
Robert Cabbell Roffe
1780–1839
Birth 6 APR 1780 • Bermondsey St Mary Magdalene, England
Death 25 MAR 1839 • St Pancras, Middlesex, England
John Roffe had been an apprentice to James Basire.

File:City of Oxford; a glimpse of the city from the meadows. Etch Wellcome V0014235.jpg|City of Oxford: a glimpse of the city from the meadows. Etching by J. Roffe.
File:City of Oxford; view from the Cherwell. Etching by J. Roffe. Wellcome V0014236.jpg|City of Oxford: view from the Cherwell. Etching by J. Roffe.
File:John Ray. Stipple engraving by J. Roffe, 1820, after Mary Be Wellcome V0004939EL.jpg|John Ray. Stipple engraving by J. Roffe, 1820, after Mary Beale.
File:The British Museum at Montague House; a layout plan, and ele Wellcome V0013506.jpg|The British Museum at Montague House: a layout plan, and elevation of the garden facade. Engraving by J. Roffe after A. Pugin, 1823.

Richard Roffe

Robert Cabbell Roffe and children

Robert Cabbell Roffe was an English engraver and diarist. He was apprenticed from 15 April 1794 – 15 Apr 1801 to Benjamin Smith, engraver.
He was the father of:
Alfred Thomas Roffe
Felix Robert Roffe
Edwin Roffe
He was also the father of Charlotte Edwin Searcy née Roffe, who with William Searcy were the parents of Alfred Searcy and Arthur Searcy, South Australian public servants.