Sir Robert Lawley, 5th Baronet

Sir Robert Lawley, 5th Baronet (22 March 1736 11 March 1793) was an English landowner and politician.

The family seat was Canwell Hall, Canwell, Staffordshire a thirty nine roomed mansion house built by Sir Francis, 2nd Baronet. He rebuilt the house in grand Georgian style to a design by architect James Wyatt.

He married Jane Thompson (1743 – 9 November 1816), sister of Beilby Thompson, of Escrick, Yorkshire on 11 August 1764. They had eight children baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Sutton Coldfield including:[1]

In 1780, he was returned as Member of Parliament (MP) for Warwickshire, being the choice of the Whig manufacturing interests of Birmingham, which by this period could name one of two Warwickshire's two MPs without opposition. Despite this, he was not himself a Whig partisan but

had given the most incontrovertible indications of a sincere zeal in their cause, was unanimously selected as the voluntary object of their unbiassed preference...and at the county meeting, held a short time afterwards, he was named and accepted without any opposition. He is not likely to prove a speaker in the House, but ... it is supposed that he has no superiors in integrity. [2]

Lawley did not vote consistently with either party. His only two recorded speeches were on matters of constituency interest (on a bill to allow brass to be exported, and supporting a petition of some iron manufacturers). He retained his seat until his death in 1793.

See also

References

  1. Foster, Joseph (1874). Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire. London.
  2. The English Chronicle, quoted by Namier & Brooke
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Thomas George Skipwith
Sir Charles Holte, Bt
Member for Warwickshire
1780–1793
With: Sir George Shuckburgh, Bt
Succeeded by
Sir George Shuckburgh, Bt
Sir John Mordaunt, Bt
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Robert Lawley
Baronet
(of Spoonhill)
1779–1793
Succeeded by
Robert Lawley


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