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Sir Robert Jenkinson, 1st Baronet

1621 – 1677

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Lived 1621 – 1677 (aged 55–56). Sir Robert Jenkinson, 1st Baronet was a politician.

Sir Robert Jenkinson, 1st Baronet (1621 – 30 March 1677), was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1654 to 1659.

Jenkinson was the son of Sir Robert Jenkinson of Walcot, Oxfordshire, and his wife Anna-Maria Lee, daughter of Sir Robert Lee of Billeslee. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, aged 16 on 16 December 1636 and was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1649.

In 1654, Jenkinson was elected Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire in the First Protectorate Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Oxfordshire in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament and in 1659 for the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was created baronet on 18 May 1661.

Jenkinson died at the age of 56.

Jenkinson married Mary Banks, daughter of Sir John Bankes of Kingston Hall, Dorset. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Robert.

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1621
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Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the Third Protectorate Parliament, Member of the Second Protectorate Parliament, Member of the First Protectorate Parliament
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Sir Robert Jenkinson, 1st Bt.

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English politician; (1621-1677)

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Sir Robert Jenkinson, 1st Baronet was born in 1621.

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Sir Robert Jenkinson, 1st Baronet died on 30 March 1677.

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Sir Robert Jenkinson, 1st Baronet was a politician.

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· Wikipedia: Sir Robert Jenkinson, 1st Baronet

· Wikidata: Q7528798

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