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Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor

1660 – 1723

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Lived 1660 – 1723 (aged 62–63). Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor was a British and English politician.

Charles Bodvile Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1660–1723) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1679 until 1681 and again in 1685 until he inherited a peerage as Earl of Radnor. He was styled Viscount Bodmin from 1682 to 1685.

Family Robartes was the son of Robert Robartes, Viscount Bodmin, eldest son of John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor and his wife Sarah Bodvel, second daughter of John Bodvel of Bodvile Castle, Cornwall and Ann Russell. His father was ambassador to Denmark in 1681, and his mother was a noted beauty. She should have been a considerable heiress, but on her father's death a new will was found in favour of a distant cousin, Thomas Wynn, son of Sir Richard Wynn, 2nd Baronet, which involved the Robartes family in years of litigation.

In 1679, Robartes was elected Member of Parliament for Bossiney and held the seat until 1681. On the death of his father in 1682, he inherited the courtesy title Viscount Bodmin. He was elected MP for Cornwall in 1685 but later in the year he inherited the title of Baron Robartes and the earldom on the death of his grandfather John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor.

He was at various times a Privy Counsellor, the Lord Warden of the Stannaries, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall and Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall and Treasurer of the Chamber.

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Important facts

Born
1660
Birth century
Died
1723, Newbury
Occupation
Education
Middle Temple
Positions held
Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the 1679 Parliament, Member of the 1680-81 Parliament, Member of the 1685-87 Parliament
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society
Also known as
Charles Bodvile Robartes, Charles Bodvill Robartes

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Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor was born in 1660.

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Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor died in 1723 in Newbury.

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Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor was a politician.

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Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor was British and English.

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· Wikipedia: Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor

· Wikidata: Q5082094

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