Sir Robert Dashwood, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Dashwood, 1st Baronet was an English politician.Life
The son of George Dashwood, a London merchant, and Margaret Perry, he was a first cousin of Sir Samuel Dashwood and Sir Francis Dashwood, 1st Baronet. His brother George was Member of Parliament for under Queen Anne, while his sister Elizabeth married Sir Thomas Hare, 2nd Baronet, Member of Parliament for. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford, and created a baronet on 16 September 1684.
Dashwood was a Tory and strong Anglican; and a courtier under James II. Despite these views, he became involved in the matter of Edmund Prideaux, implicated in Monmouth's Rebellion in 1685. Giving and lending money, Dashwood enabled Prideaux to pay off the accusation. He was elected three times as Member of Parliament for from 1689; and for in November 1699, losing his seat in 1700. As the 1690s proceeded, he became identified with the Country Party opposition.Family
On 9 June 1683 Dashwood married Penelope, daughter of Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, 2nd Baronet. They had five sons and four daughters.
Their eldest son surviving to adulthood was Robert, who married Dorothea Read. The next son Richard married a cousin, Elizabeth Lewis. Their daughter Penelope married Sir John Stonhouse, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament for. The third daughter Catherine married Sir Robert Bankes Jenkinson, 4th Baronet.
The other daughters were Margaret, and Anne who married Anthony Cope. Robert the son died in 1728, in Paris, before his father. His son became Sir James Dashwood, 2nd Baronet in 1734.
