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Robert Vyner (1717–1799), was a British politician who sat in the
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at various times between 1754 and 1796.


Early life

Vyner was the only son of Robert Vyner of Gautby and his wife Margaret Style, daughter of
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, and was born on 27 June 1717. He was educated by private tutor at home and was admitted at
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on 3 April 1738 and at
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on 18 November 1741.


Political career

Vyner was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for
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as the Duke of Bedford's candidate in the 1754 general election. He did not stand in
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and was defeated at
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in the 1768 general election. He married Eleanor Anderson, daughter of Thomas Carter of Redbourne, Lincolnshire, and widow of Francis Anderson on 5 May 1768. She was the mother of Charles Anderson-Pelham and
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who both joined him in Parliament. In
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Vyner was elected MP for Lincoln after a contest. He retained his seat at Lincoln at the 1780 general election. The
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wrote about him in 1781 as follows. “He enjoys an estate of eight or ten thousand a year in Lincolnshire, is generally esteemed proud and imperious to inferiors, notwithstanding the apparent softness of his interior contexture in the House, and is not at all popular even in the place he represents.” Vyner did not seek re-election at Lincoln in 1784 but instead was returned as MP for
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on the Frankland interest at by-election in 1785. He held the seat in the 1790 general election but did not seek re-election in
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. He was passed over for a peerage. Nathaniel Wraxall described him as "endowed with very good common sense, and of an unimpeachable character".


Later life and legacy

Vyner died on 19 July 1799. He had one son
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who was born in 1762, before he married Eleanor, in addition to his step-children.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vyner, Robert 1717 births 1799 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Members of the Inner Temple Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1754–1761 British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 British MPs 1790–1796 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Okehampton