Sir Robert Maude, 1st Baronet (1677 – 4 August 1750) was an

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politician.

Biography

He was the only son of Anthony Maude, MP for

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and High Sheriff of Tipperary, and Alice Hartstonge, daughter of

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, Baron of the

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and his first wife Elizabeth Jermyn of

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. He married Eleanor Cornwallis, daughter of Thomas Cornwallis of Abermarlais,

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, and his wife Emma Charlton, and sister of

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MP; her stepfather was John Robinson,

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. He lived at Dundrum House, near

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. On the death without issue of her brother, Emma inherited a quarter of his substantial estate in

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. Maude sat in the

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as the Member of Parliament for

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from 1703 to 1713. Between 1713 and 1727 he represented

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, before sitting for Bangor from 1727 to his death in 1750. On 9 May 1705 he had been created a

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, of Dundrum in the

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, and was succeeded in his title by his eldest son, Thomas Maude, who was created Baron de Montalt in 1776 but died unmarried. His second son, Cornwallis Maude, was created

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in 1793. They also had a daughter Emma, who was the second wife of Sir Charles Leighton, 3rd Baronet.''Burke's Peerage''

References

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