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Authorised form of nameMarsham; Robert (1685 - 1724); 1st Baron Romney
Dates1685 - 1724
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBushey, Hertfordshire
Date of birth17 September 1685
Place of deathFrith Street, Soho
Date of death28 November 1724
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Crayford, Kent
ActivityEducation:
St John's College, Oxford (matriculated 1701)
Career:
MP for Maidstone (1708-1716); Lieutenant Governor of Dover Castle (1717); said to have paid £5000 for his title
Honours:
Baron 1716
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/11/1723
ProposerJames Hodgson
RelationshipsSon of Sir Robert Marsham, Bart, Clerk in Chancery, of Cuxton and Bushey Heath, and his wife, Margaret daughter of Thomas Bosville of Little Mote, Eynsford, Kent; succeeded his father as 5th Bart (1703); married Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and his wife, Elizabeth, widow of Admiral Sir John Narborough and daughter of Captain John Hill, Commissioner in the Navy, of Shadwell, London
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; GEC; Foster; Sedgwick
CodeNA7385
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/003874Marsham, Robert, 1st Baron Romneynd
MS/390/202Bond of Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney, to the Treasurer of the Royal Society19 December 1723
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