21-451: Robarts or Robartes may refer to: Surnames [ edit ] Charles Robartes (1660–1723), Second Earl of Radnor Gerald Robarts (1878–1961), British soldier and squash rackets player John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (1606–1685), succeeded his father, Richard, as Baron Robartes John Robarts (1917–1982), Canadian politician John Robarts (Baháʼí) (1901–1991), Canadian Baháʼí,
42-644: A Hand of the Cause of God John Robarts (VC) (1818–1888), English recipient of the Victoria Cross Richard Robarts (born 1944), English Formula One driver Robert Robartes (1634–1682), Viscount Bodmin Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden (1844-1930) known as Lord Robartes from 1882 to 1899 Other uses [ edit ] Baron Robartes , a British hereditary peerage first created on 1625 for Richard Robartes Robarts Library ,
63-636: A love match not endorsed by her father, is reported by all accounts to have been particularly happy but there were no children. By the terms of the marriage settlement on her death without an heir, 13 January 1697, these estates reverted to the ownership of her father's heirs, her cousins, the Boulter family. He was at various times a Privy Counsellor , the Lord Warden of the Stannaries , Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall and Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall and Treasurer of
84-634: A prominent public man, with influence among the Presbyterians , and ranged himself among Lord Clarendon 's enemies. Robartes was regularly attacked (not least by Samuel Pepys ) for incompetence, dilatoriness, arrogance and bad temper. He was offered the post of Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1660 but was unwilling to serve, and was Lord Lieutenant in 1669–1670; from 1661 to 1673 he was Lord Privy Seal although he did not exercise his office after his return from Ireland. He once again retired to Lanhydrock where he spent much time hunting deer and hare in his parks. He
105-480: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor Charles Bodvile Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor PC FRS (1660–1723) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1679 until 1681 and again in 1685 until he inherited a peerage as Earl of Radnor . He was styled Viscount Bodmin from 1682 to 1685. Robartes
126-612: Is said by some, especially William Sanderson , to have persuaded the Earl of Essex to make his ill-fated march into Cornwall in 1644; he escaped with the earl from Fowey after the defeat of the parliamentary army in the first days of September 1644. Having reached Plymouth safely, he became its Governor and defended the city from the besieging Royalists. With the Self-Denying Ordinance of April 1645 he lost his command in Plymouth and
147-730: The First Battle of Newbury , on 20 September 1643. He became a member of the Committee of Both Kingdoms. This Committee, on which his mentors, the Earls of Warwick and Essex, also sat, allowed him to appreciate Scottish Presbyterianism. He always relied on his own interpretation of the Bible; annotations he made in his books show that he sympathised with those who put faith above ritual. He had succeeded his father, Richard Robartes, as Baron Robartes in May 1634. He
168-877: The Peerage of England . He was President until 1684 and continued to attend the House of Lords until a few weeks before his death at Chelsea on 17 July 1685. He was buried in the family crypt in Lanhydrock Church with little ceremony, as he had stipulated in his will. Robartes was married twice: first to Lucy Rich, the second daughter of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick , and Frances Hatton, with whom he had three sons, including Robert and Hender ; and secondly to Letitia Isabella (died 1714), daughter of Sir John Smith of Bidborough, Kent, with whom he had nine other children, including Francis , and Araminta, who married Ezekiel Hopkins , Bishop of Derry . This lady has been identified with
189-584: The "Lady Robarts" mentioned in Count Hamilton's Mémoires du Comte de Grammont, par le C. Antoine Hamilton. Edition ornée de LXXII portraits, Graves d'apres les tableaux originaux. , A Londres, [1793] (she is described by Pepys as "a great beauty indeed".) John Robartes' eldest son, Robert, Viscount Bodmin, was ambassador to Denmark in 1681, and died there in February 1682. He had married Sarah Bodvel, second daughter of John Bodvel of Bodvile Castle, North Wales,
210-530: The Chamber . He was succeeded by his nephew Henry Robartes 3rd Earl of Radnor who died unmarried in Paris in 1741. The title became extinct on the death of the fourth earl, John Robartes (1686–1757), eldest son of Francis Robartes a son of the first Earl's second marriage to Letitia Isabella Smith. John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor PC (1606 – 17 July 1685)
231-722: The Church of England, John became alarmed at the Arminian slant of King Charles I 's religious policy and his increasingly autocratic rule; he believed the King had been misled by evil councillors. For this reason John Robartes fought on the side of the Parliament and, according to his view of things, also the King, during the Civil War . He fought with valour at the Battle of Edgehill on 23 October 1642, and at
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#1732845117592252-676: The Robartes family in years of litigation. In 1679 Robartes was elected Member of Parliament for Bossiney and held the seat until 1681. On the death of his father in 1682 he inherited the courtesy title Viscount Bodmin. He was elected MP for Cornwall in 1685 but later in the year he inherited the title of Baron Robartes and the earldom on the death of his grandfather John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor . In 1689 Radnor married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Cutler, 1st Baronet by his second wife Elicis Tipping who brought with her major estates including Harewood and Wimpole Hall . The marriage,
273-520: The end of his life he opposed the more extreme Protestant groups, led by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury , who refused to accept the succession of James because he was a self-declared Catholic. John Robartes was born in Truro , where his father Richard Robartes was knighted in 1616, created a baronet in 1621 and raised to the peerage as Baron Robartes of Truro in 1625. The family had amassed wealth by trading in tin, wood and gorse (furze) used by
294-615: The main humanities and social sciences library of the University of Toronto Robarts Research Institute , a non-profit medical research facility in London, Ontario with a staff of nearly 600 people See also [ edit ] Michael Robartes and the Dancer , a 1921 book of poems by William Butler Yeats Robards (disambiguation) Robert (disambiguation) Roberts (disambiguation) Robertson (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
315-464: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Robarts . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robarts&oldid=996552427 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
336-471: The tin smelters, and in 1620 bought and began extending Lanhydrock House near Bodmin as the family seat. Richard became a baronet, and the baronet's hand on the shields engraved on the principal door of Lanhydrock House bear testimony to this. The barony was purchased for £10,000 in 1625. This ennoblement was claimed, by the opponents of the Duke of Buckingham, to have been purchased under compulsion. His son, John,
357-649: Was an English politician, peer and military officer who fought for the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War . He retired from public life before the trial and execution of Charles I (1649) and did not take an active part in politics until after the Restoration in 1660. During the reign of Charles II he opposed the Cavalier party (because he wished for more tolerance of non-Anglican religious sects). Toward
378-653: Was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1666. In 1679 Charles II recalled him to public office to counteract the growing power of the Whigs, at that time a faction opposed to the succession of Charles' brother, the Catholic James, Duke of York . In 1679, for his support of Charles's policy of making his brother his successor, John was made Lord President of the Council and was created Viscount Bodmin and Earl of Radnor in
399-730: Was obliged like his brother-in-law, the Earl of Manchester , to watch the successes of Cromwell's New Model Army from the sidelines. He, like other Lords who had sided with Parliament, was marginalised by the so-called Independents who saw no future in continuing negotiations with King Charles. The execution of the King would have appalled him. Between the execution of Charles I and the restoration of Charles II in 1660, he retired to Lanhydrock with his family and took practically no part in public life. From Lanhydrock he exercised influence in Cornwall, though he seems to have dedicated most of his time to study and to his growing family. After 1660 he became
420-469: Was the first of the family to receive a university education, being educated at Exeter College, Oxford . His father became the friend of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick , and succeeded in arranging the marriage of his son to the Earl's younger daughter Lucy, thereby cementing an alliance that would bring John into contact with influential radical preachers of the time. Convinced of the more Calvinist doctrines of
441-479: Was the son of Robert Robartes, Viscount Bodmin , eldest son of John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor and his wife Sarah Bodvel, second daughter of John Bodvel of Bodvile Castle, Cornwall and Ann Russell. His father was ambassador to Denmark in 1681, and his mother was a noted beauty. She should have been a considerable heiress, but on her father's death a new will was found in favour of a distant cousin, Thomas Wynn, son of Sir Richard Wynn, 2nd Baronet , which involved
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