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Sir Robert Jenkinson, 1st Baronet

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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.[1] He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, aged 16 on 16 December 1636 and was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1649.[2]

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.[3] 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.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b John Burke A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage Volume 2
  2. ^ 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Jablonski-Juxston', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 793–836. Date accessed: 25 August 2011.
  3. ^ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
Parliament of England
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire
1654–1659
With: James Whitelocke 1654
Nathaniel Fiennes 1654
Charles Fleetwood 1654–1656
William Lenthall 1654–1656
Miles Fleetwood 1656
Sir Francis Norreys 1656
The Viscount Falkland 1659
Constituency not represented
in the Restored Rump
Baronetage of England
New creation Baronet
of Walcot and Hawkesbury
1661–1677
Succeeded by