Robert Willimot

Sir Robert Willimot (died 1746), of Banstead, Surrey, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1741. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1742.

Willimot was an underwriter in the City of London. He married, at St Olave, Hart Street, by licence dated 5 February 1715, Elizabeth Lambert, daughter of John Lambert of Garratts Hall, in Banstead, Surrey.

Willimot was a Common Councillor for Tower Ward from 1729 to 1736. At the 1734 general election, he was elected Tory Member of Parliament for the City of London. He made his first reported speech on the navy estimates on 7 February 1735. On 19 March 1735 he reported on the conclusions of a committee appointed to find ways of preventing wool smuggling from England and Ireland to the continent. He became a member of the Coopers Company in 1736 and was elected alderman, for Lime Street, on 28 January 1736, remaining for the rest of his life. In 1736 he voted against the Westminster Bridge bill. He was Lord Mayor for the year 1742 to 1743 and was Master of the Coopers Company in 1743. and died on 19 December 1746. He was buried at All Saints Banstead on 26 December 1746. He had three daughters of whom at least one predeceased him.