Robert Caesar (9 October 1602 – 27 October 1637) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the

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in 1625 and 1626. Caesar was the son of

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, privy councillor of

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and

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. He attended

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from 1609 to 1615.History of Parliament Online – Caesar, Robert
/ref> He matriculated at

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on 26 January 1616, aged 13 and was awarded BA on 15 October 1618. He was called to the bar at

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in 1622.'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714: Cabell-Chafe', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 228–254. Date accessed: 8 May 2012
/ref> In 1625, he was elected

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for Bodmin. He was elected MP for

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in 1626. From 1628 to 1636 he was a Clerk of the Petty Bag and from 1636 to 1637 one of the

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in the

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. On 7 December 1630 in

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he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Manning, a merchant of London. Caesar died at the age of 35.

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English barristers