Robert Caesar (9 October 1602 – 27 October 1637) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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in 1625 and 1626.
Caesar was the son of
Sir Julius Caesar
Sir Julius Caesar (1557/155818 April 1636) was an English lawyer, judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1622. He was also known as Julius Adelmare.
Early life and education
Caesar was born near ...
,
privy councillor
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of
James I James I may refer to:
People
*James I of Aragon (1208–1276)
* James I of Sicily or James II of Aragon (1267–1327)
* James I, Count of La Marche (1319–1362), Count of Ponthieu
* James I, Count of Urgell (1321–1347)
*James I of Cyprus (1334� ...
and
Charles I Charles I may refer to:
Kings and emperors
* Charlemagne (742–814), numbered Charles I in the lists of Holy Roman Emperors and French kings
* Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285), also king of Albania, Jerusalem, Naples and Sicily
* Charles I of ...
. He attended
Eton from 1609 to 1615.
[History of Parliament Online – Caesar, Robert]
/ref> He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford
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on 26 January 1616, aged 13 and was awarded BA on 15 October 1618. He was called to the bar at Inner Temple
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in 1622.['Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714: Cabell-Chafe', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 228–254. Date accessed: 8 May 2012]
/ref>
In 1625, he was elected Member of Parliament
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for Bodmin
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The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character. It is bordere ...
. He was elected MP for Ilchester
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in 1626. From 1628 to 1636 he was a Clerk of the Petty Bag
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The Petty Bag office dealt with common-law issues in the Court of Chancery and dated from as early as the 14th century, declining in importance ...
and from 1636 to 1637 one of the Six Clerks
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The Office
The Office was in Chancery Lane, near the Holborn end. The business ...
in the Court of Chancery
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.
On 7 December 1630 in Rolls Chapel
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he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Manning, a merchant of London.
Caesar died at the age of 35.[
]
References
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1602 births
1637 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall
Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford
Members of the Inner Temple
English MPs 1625
English MPs 1626
17th-century English lawyers
English people of Italian descent
Robert
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, h ...
English barristers