Sir Robert Payne (29 September 1573 – 18 June 1631) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of ...

at various times between 1614 and 1629.

Biography

Robert Payne was the son of Robert Payne of Midloe, Huntingtonshire and his wife Maria Watertown, daughter of Sir Robert Watertown of Waterton, Yorkshire. In 1603 he inherited the estate of Midloe on the death of his father. He was knighted at Greenwich on 22 May 1605.Knights of England
/ref> In 1607 he was

High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire This is an ''incomplete'' list of sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in England from 1154 until the abolition of the office in 1965. Exceptionally, the two counties shared a single sheriff. Sheriffs had a one-year term of office, bei ...

. He was a subscriber of the

London Virginia Company The Virginia Company of London (sometimes called "London Company") was a division of the Virginia Company with responsibility for colonizing the east coast of North America between latitudes 34° and 41° N. History Origins The territory ...

in 1609. In 1614, Payne was elected Member of Parliament for

Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire (; abbreviated Hunts) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England, which was historically a county in its own right. It borders Peterborough to the north, Fenland to the north-east, East Cambridgeshire to the e ...

. He was re-elected MP for Huntingdonshire in 1621. In 1626 he was elected MP for Huntingdonshire again. He was re-elected in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. Payne died at the age of aged 58.

Personal life

Payne married Elizabeth Rotheram, the daughter of

George Rotheram George Rotheram (1541-1599) was a Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire. The son of Thomas Rotheram and Alice Wellesford or Wilsford. He lived at Someries Castle, Luton, Rotheram married Jane Smith, daughter of Christopher Smith, MP of Annable ...

of Somery, Bedfordshire and had 5 sons and 6 daughters.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Payne, Robert 1573 births 1631 deaths English MPs 1614 English MPs 1621–1622 English MPs 1626 English MPs 1628–1629 High sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Politics of Huntingdonshire