Robert Frye (died 1435), from

Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...

, was an English Member of Parliament and civil servant.

Family

Frye was the son of Agnes Frye and an unknown father. Her second marriage was to Thomas Raleigh of

Farnborough, Warwickshire Farnborough is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. It is located on the border with Oxfordshire, around 6 miles (10 km) north of Banbury. The population taken at the 2011 census was 26 ...

, who died in 1397. In 1399, she married Thomas Wanklyn. Frye was the stepbrother of

Thomas Raleigh Sir Thomas Raleigh, KCSI, KC (2 December 1850 – 8 February 1920) was a British lawyer and academic. A fellow of All Souls College, Oxford since 1876, he was Reader in English Law at the University of Oxford from 1884 to 1896, Registrar of the Pr ...

, who was a Member of Parliament for

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon an ...

Career

He was a

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(MP) of the

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for

Shaftesbury Shaftesbury () is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated on the A30 road, west of Salisbury, near the border with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset, being built about above sea level on a ...

in 1406 and 1417 and for Wilton in 1406, 1407, 1410, 1411 and May 1413.

References

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