About Robert Nedham
Lived 1703 – 1762 (aged 58–59). Robert Nedham was a British politician and plantation owner.
Robert Nedham (1703 – August 1762) was a British-Jamaican plantation owner and politician who sat in the House of Commons for the rotten borough of Old Sarum from 1734 to 1741.
Early life Robert Nedham was the son of Robert Nedham, a slave owner in Jamaica. He settled permanently in England on his estates at Newry, County Down and at Oxford, Oxfordshire.
Personal life Nedham married Catherine Pitt, the daughter of Harriet Villiers and Robert Pitt, who also served as MP for Old Sarum.
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Who was Robert Nedham?
British Member of Parliament (died 1762)
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Robert Nedham was born in 1703.
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Robert Nedham died in 1762.
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Robert Nedham was a politician and plantation owner.
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Robert Nedham was British.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Robert Nedham. https://biography.guide/robert-nedham/
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