Robert Lawley, 1st Baron Wenlock (1768 – 10 April 1834) was a British landowner and politician, the eldest son of
Sir Robert Lawley, 5th Baronet
Sir Robert Lawley, 5th Baronet (c. 1736 – 11 March 1793) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1780 to 1793.
Early life
Lawley was the only surviving son of Sir Robert Lawley, 4th Baronet, of Canwell Prio ...
and Jane Thompson.
Lawley attended the military school at
Brienne
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Counts of Brienne
* Engelbert I
* Engelbert II
* Engelbert III
* Engelbert IV
* Walter I (? – c. 1090)
* Erard I (c. 1090 – c. 1120?)
* Walter II ...
, France, at the time
Napoleon Bonaparte
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was there.
His seat was
Canwell Hall,
Staffordshire
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and he served as
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in 1797.
In 1793 he married
Anna Maria Denison (19 October 1770–20 August 1850), younger daughter of the banker
Joseph Denison, but the couple had no children. In 1825 he befriended
John Hollins
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and they journeyed to Italy together.
He was raised to the peerage as Baron Wenlock, of
Wenlock in the
County of Salop in 1831. Upon his death in
Florence
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on 10 April 1834, the Barony became extinct.
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Wenlock, Robert Lawley, 1st Baron
Wenlock, Robert Lawley, 1st Baron
Wenlock, Robert Lawley, 1st Baron
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Newcastle-under-Lyme
UK MPs 1802–1806
UK MPs who were granted peerages
High Sheriffs of Staffordshire
Peers of the United Kingdom created by William IV
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