Robert Bulkeley, 2nd Viscount Bulkeley of Cashel (died 18 October 1688) was a British peer and politician. He was born the second son of

Thomas Bulkeley, 1st Viscount Bulkeley Thomas Bulkeley, 1st Viscount Bulkeley (1585–1659) was a landowner from North Wales who supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. The son of Sir Richard Bulkeley of Beaumaris and his first wife Mary Burgh, daughter of William, ...

of Baron Hill, Beaumaris and inherited the title from his father after his elder brother Richard was murdered. His mother was Blanche Cotymore, daughter of Richard Cotymore. He was appointed

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for 1658 and elected the

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for

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for 1660–1661, Caernarvonshire, 1675–1679, and Anglesey for the second time from 1685 to 1689. He married Sarah, the daughter of Daniel Hervey of Coombe in Surrey. They had three sons and six daughters. He was succeeded by his eldest son

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. Of his younger sons, Robert Bulkeley (died 1702), became MP for Beaumaris and

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became MP for Caernarvonshire.

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1688 deaths Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales High Sheriffs of Anglesey

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17th-century Welsh politicians English MPs 1660 English MPs 1661–1679 English MPs 1685–1687 Year of birth unknown People from Beaumaris {{Ireland-viscount-stub