ROCKHAMPTON 



6659 



ROCK ISLAND 



Illinois Central and other rlys. It 

 is the seat of Rockford College. 

 Water power is obtained from the 

 river for the city's industries, which 

 include the manufacture of ma- 

 chinery, furniture, gas stoves, agri- 

 cultural implements, and hosiery. 

 Settled in 1834, it was chartered 

 as a city in 1852. Pop. 65,700. 



Rockhampton. Town in 

 Queensland. It lies on the Fitzroy 

 river, 420 m. by rail N.W. of Bris- 

 bane. The terminus of the Central 

 Queensland Rly., and the port for 

 the mines at Mt. Morgan, it has 

 rly. connexions with Brisbane and 

 the other capital cities. The dist. 

 grazes a quarter of a million cattle, 

 and contains large meat-works, 

 three collieries, and gold and cop- 

 per mines. Pop. 18,000. 



Rockingham. Village of North- 

 amptonshire, England. It stands 

 near the Welland, 8 m. from Ket- 

 tering, and is noted for its castle, 

 of which some ruins remain. This 

 is said to have been built by Wil- 

 liam the Conqueror for the protec- 

 tion of the ironworks in the sur- 

 rounding forest. It was rebuilt in 

 the 16th century, but was de- 

 stroyed after the Civil War. Rock- 

 ingham was once a market town. 

 S. Leonard's Church has monu- 

 ments of the Watson family, who 

 owned the castle and took their 

 titles from here. To the S. and E. 

 of the village extended the royal 

 deer forest of Rockingham, of which 

 a few patches remain. 



Rockingham, CHARLES WAT- 

 SON-WENTWORTH, 2ND MARQUESS 

 OF (1730-82). British states- 

 man. Born May 13, 1730, he was 

 educated at Westminster School 

 and S. John's College, Cambridge. 

 An hereditary member of the Whig 

 party, he was made earl of Malton 

 in 1750, and in the same year be- 

 came marquess of Rockingham. 

 He held positions at court, and in 

 1761 was chosen leader of one of 

 the sections of the Whigs, becoming 

 active at this time as an, opponent 

 of Bute. In 1765, on the fall of 

 Grenville, Rockingham became 

 prime minister, r 

 but he was com- ; 

 pelled to resign 

 in 1766. He re- 

 mained an op- 

 position leader 

 until March, 

 1782, when he 

 was again at the 

 head of a minis- 

 try, but three 

 months later, 

 July 1, 1782, he 

 died. He left 

 no children, and 

 his titles became 

 extinct. His 

 great estates in 



Rockhampton, Queensland. Suspension bridge over 

 the Fitzroy river, looking towards North Rockhampton 



Northamptonshire and Yorkshire 

 passed to his nephew, Earl Fitz- 

 william (q.v.). 



Rockingham was descended from 

 Sir Lewis Watson (1584-1653), of 

 Rockingham Castle, who, in 1645, 

 was made a baron, a reward for his 

 loyalty to Charles I. His son 

 Edward and then his grandson 

 Thomas succeeded to his title and 

 estates. The latter r.-as made earl 



of Rockingham 



in 17 14, but the 



title became 



extinct on his 



death in 1746. 



The barony, 



h o w e v e r , 



passed to a 



kinsman, 



Thomas Wat- 



2nd Marquess of son-Went- 

 Rocki ngham, worth , w h o s e 

 British statesman grandmot her 



After Reynoldt wag th e daugh- 



ter and heiress of the great earl of 

 Strafford. Made a marquess in 

 1746, Thomas, who inherited the 

 estates of the families of Watson 

 and Wentworth, was the father of 

 the prime minister. 



Rockingham Ware. Pottery 

 formerly made on the estate of the 

 marquess of Rockingham, at Swin- 

 ton, near Sheffield. The works were 

 established in 1745 and were suc- 

 cessively controlled by Twigg, 

 Bingley & Co., and Bramell. 



Rockingham ware 

 is of a chocolate 

 hue, the teapots, 

 which are charac- 

 teristically long, 

 coffee-pots, jugs, 

 and mugs being 

 lined with white. 

 Quaint tea and 

 coffee pots, shaped 

 like fruits, with 

 moulded leaves 

 stuck on, were pro- 

 duced here, and 

 known as " Cado- 

 gans." Fine blue 

 and white pottery 

 was also produced 

 in these works. 



Rocking Stone OR LOGAN 

 STONE. Massive rock so poised 

 upon its bed as to be readily 

 swayed by hand pressure. It 

 may be an ice-transported boul- 

 der, or a granite mass resting 

 upon a weathered base, as at 

 Sittaford Tor, Dartmoor. Such 

 stones are frequent in Cornwall, 



Rockingham Ware. Vase 

 painted landscape 



with 



r 



Rocking Stone. The Logan Stone, Rippon Tor, a famous 

 rocking stone on Dartmoor 



Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Wales, low- 

 land Scotland, and Ireland, often 

 near neolithic stone monuments, 

 and they are associated with much 

 local folk-lore. The Logan Rock 

 (q.v.), Land's End, weighs about 70 

 tons ; and one at Tandil, Argentina, 

 700 tons. Among the Kelasa Hills, 

 Burma, a Buddhist temple crowns 

 a rocking stone, 3,650 ft. high. 



Rock Island. City of Illinois, 

 U.S.A., the co. seat of Rock Island 

 co. It stands at the confluence of 

 Rock and Mississippi rivers, oppo- 

 site Davenport', and is served by 

 the Chicago, Rock Island and 

 Pacific and other rlys., and by the 

 Hennepin Canal. It has the Augus- 

 tana College and Theological Sem- 

 inary, and on the neighbouring 



