About Robert Barnham
Lived 1606 – 1685 (aged 78–79). Robert Barnham was a politician.
Sir Robert Barnham, 1st Baronet (12 October 1606 – c. June 1685) of Boughton Monchelsea Place was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679.
Barnham was the son of Sir Francis Barnham and his wife Elizabeth Leonard, daughter of Sampson Leonard of Chevening. His father had been MP for Maidstone.
In 1660, Barnham was elected Member of Parliament for Maidstone in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679. He was created a baronet, of Boughton Monchelsey in the County of Kent, on 14 August 1663.
Boughton Monchelsea passed to Sir Robert's daughter Philadelphia and her husband Thomas Rider.
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