Sir Robert Dashwood, 1st Baronet (1662–1734) was an English politician.

Life

The son of George Dashwood, a London merchant, and Margaret Perry, he was a first cousin of Sir Samuel Dashwood and Sir Francis Dashwood, 1st Baronet (the fortunes of the two branches of the family went back to George Dashwood's grandfather, Robert Dashwood of

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, who died in 1610). His brother George was Member of Parliament for Sudbury under Queen Anne, while his sister Elizabeth married Sir Thomas Hare, 2nd Baronet, Member of Parliament for

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. He was educated at

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and

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, and created a baronet on 16 September 1684. Dashwood was a Tory and strong Anglican; and a courtier under James II. Despite these views, he became involved in the matter of Edmund Prideaux, implicated in

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in 1685. (There was a family connection, Prideaux being the brother of his mother-in-law Margaret.) Giving and lending money, Dashwood enabled Prideaux to pay off the accusation. He was elected three times as Member of Parliament for

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from 1689; and for

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in November 1699, losing his seat in 1700. As the 1690s proceeded, he became identified with the Country Party opposition.

Family

On 9 June 1683 Dashwood married Penelope, daughter of Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, 2nd Baronet. They had five sons and four daughters. Their eldest son surviving to adulthood was Robert, who married Dorothea Read(e). The next son Richard married a cousin, Elizabeth Lewis (as a granddaughter of Sir Samuel Dashwood, a second cousin once removed). Their daughter Penelope married Sir John Stonhouse, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament for

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. The third daughter Catherine married

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. The other daughters were Margaret (who died young), and Anne who married Anthony Cope (he was son of Jonathan Cope and brother of

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, both MPs). Robert the son died in 1728, in Paris, before his father. His son became

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in 1734.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dashwood, Robert 1662 births 1734 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford English MPs 1689–1690 English MPs 1690–1695 English MPs 1695–1698 English MPs 1698–1700 Baronets in the Baronetage of England