Sir Robert Cann, 1st Baronet (c. 1621–1685), of Small Street,

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, was an English politician. He was Mayor of Bristol in 1662, a member of the

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, and enlarged Trinity Theological College at Stoke Bishop. Cann campaigned for a law against kidnapping of white children for plantation work, but was himself fined in 1685 for taking criminals from Bristol to work on Bristol-owned Caribbean plantations. He was a

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(MP) of the

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on 11 February 1678, March 1679, and October 1679 – 28 October 1680.

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