Robert Croke (fl. 1419-1420)
Robert Croke may refer to: * Robert Croke (fl. 1419-1420), MP for Taunton * Robert Croke (died 1680) (1609–1680), English MP for Wendover * Robert Croke (died 1671) (1636–1671), his son, English MP for Wendover {{hndis, Croke, Robert ...
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Robert Croke (fl
Robert Croke may refer to: * Robert Croke (fl. 1419-1420), MP for Taunton *Robert Croke (died 1680) (1609–1680), English MP for Wendover *Robert Croke (died 1671) Robert Croke (c 1636 – 30 July 1671) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1671. Croke was the son of Sir Robert Croke of Hampton Poyle, Oxfordshire and his wife Susanna Van Lore, daughter of Sir Pe ...

Taunton (UK Parliament Constituency)
Taunton was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and its predecessors from 1295 to 2010, taking its name from the town of Taunton in Somerset. Until 1918, it was a parliamentary borough, electing two Member of Parliaments (MPs) between 1295 and 1885 and one from 1885 to 1918; the name was then transferred to a county constituency, electing one MP. In the boundary changes that came into effect at the general election of 2010, the Boundary Commission for England replaced Taunton with a modified constituency called Taunton Deane, to reflect the district name. The new constituency's boundaries are coterminous with the local government district of the same name. History Famous MPs for the borough include Thomas Cromwell. The 1754 by-election was so fiercely contested that rioting broke out in which two people died. In the 2005 general election, the victorious Liberal Democrats candidate in Taunton required the smallest per ...
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Robert Croke (died 1680)
Sir Robert Croke (c. 1609 – 8 February 1680) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1643. Croke was the son of Sir Henry Croke, of Hampton Poyle, Oxfordshire and his wife Bridget Hawtrey, daughter of Sir William Hawtrey of Chequers. He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 31 October 1629 aged 18 and was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1635. In April 1640, Croke was elected Member of Parliament for Wendover in the Short Parliament The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that was summoned by King Charles I of England on the 20th of February 1640 and sat from 13th of April to the 5th of May 1640. It was so called because of its short life of only three weeks. Aft .... He was re-elected MP for Wendover for the Long Parliament in November 1640 and sat until he was disabled from sitting on 15 November 1643. He supported the king and was knighted on 9 August 1641. He was created D.Med. at Oxford on 1 Ma ...
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