Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet JP (20 August 1723 – 1811) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and businessman who owned Warrenscourt House (which was bought by his grandfather, Wallis Warren, in 1703) and Crookstown House (which he inherited from his father's marriage to Anne Crooke) in County Cork.

Life He was the eldest son of Robert Warren, of Warrenscourt House, and Anne Crooke, a descendant of Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet, who founded the town of Baltimore, County Cork.

In 1768 he, Richard Tonson, Sir James St Jeffryes and James Bernard founded Tonson's Bank, later to be called Warren's Bank, in Cork. Warren's Bank, which had over £500,000 on its launch in 1768, funded elections and loaned money to contractors in the American War of Independence.

In 1750 he was made a Justice of the Peace for County Cork and in 1752 he served as High Sheriff of County Cork. Warren also helped to set up the Muskerry militia and target the Whiteboy movement. Sir Augustus Louis Carré Warren, 2nd Baronet (1754-1821). William Warren of Lisgoold, County Cork. Thomas Warren (MP for Charleville and Castlebar from 1783-1790). John Warren of Codrum House, County Cork. Rev. Robert Warren of Crookstown House, County Cork. Rev. Edward Warren. Mary Warren (who married Daniel Gibbs, J.P., Deputy Governor of County Cork). Her daughter Anne Gibbs married Richard Nettles, J.P., of Nettleville House, County Cork., and was, through her daughter Esther Nettles (who married Rev. Hume Babington), a great-grandmother of Sir Anthony Babington, the Attorney General for Northern Ireland from 1925-1937. Rose Warren. Charlotte Warren. Anne Warren.

He married, secondly, Elizabeth Lawton, daughter of John Lawton, in 1780 and with her had issue: Henry Warren, who married Catherine Stewart. His son was Robert Warren, the politician and judge. Alice Warren. She married twice, firstly to Rev. John Townsend and secondly to Major Robert Wolseley, having issue from both marriages.