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

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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 Stogumber in Somerset, who died in 1610). His brother

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was

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for under Queen Anne, while his sister Elizabeth married

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, Member of Parliament for . 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 from 1689; and for 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 Sir John Stonhouse, 3rd Baronet, PC (c.1672–1733) was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English and then British House of Commons from 1701 to 1733. Life Stonhouse was the eldest son of Sir John Stonhouse, 2nd Baronet of ...

, Member of Parliament for . The third daughter Catherine married Sir Banks Jenkinson, 4th Baronet. The other daughters were Margaret (who died young), and Anne who married Anthony Cope (he was son of Jonathan Cope and brother of

Sir Jonathan Cope, 1st Baronet Sir Jonathan Cope, 1st Baronet (c. 1691 – 28 March 1765), was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1722. Cope was the eldest son of Jonathan Cope, MP of Ranton Abbey, Staffordshire, and his wife Susan ...

, both MPs). Robert the son died in 1728, in Paris, before his father. His son became Sir James Dashwood, 2nd Baronet 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