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Robert Needham MP (abt. 1602 - 1661)

Sir Robert Needham MP
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Died at about age 59 [location unknown]
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Biography

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Robert Needham MP is Notable.

Sir Robert Needham was the son of Thomas Needham of Pool Park and his wife Eleanor Bagenal, daughter and coheir of Sir Henry Bagenal, Knight, Marshal of Ireland and widow of Sir Robert Salusbury.

He was knighted on the 4th of June 1630. [1][2]

He married twice. Probably his 2nd wife was a daughter of Sir John Lisle and Alice Beaconshaw

Sir Robert was elected MP for Haverfordwest in 1645 and secluded from Parliament in Pride's Purge. [3]

He died in 1661. [4]

Sources

  1. Burke's Peerage v.30 p. 630
  2. The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland by Shaw, William Arthur, 1865-1943; Burtchaell, George Dames, 1853-1921 Page 196
  3. W R Williams Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales p. 187
  4. Thepeerage.com: Robert Needham Cites: G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 212






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