Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney explained

Office1:President of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Term1:1761-1793
Birth Date:22 August 1712
Education:Christ Church, Oxford
Father:Robert Marsham
Relatives:Robert Marsham (grandfather)
Cloudesley Shovell (grandfather)
Children:10, including Charles and Jacob
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Rank:Colonel
Unit:West Kent Militia

Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney (22 August 1712 – 16 November 1793)[1] was a British peer and patron of the arts.

Biography

Lord Romney was the son of Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney and his wife Elizabeth Shovell, daughter of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1731 aged 18, graduating D.C.L. in 1733.

Lord Romney was a founding member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (which later evolved into the Royal Society of Arts). He was elected First Vice-President of the Society in 1758. On the death of Lord Folkestone in 1761, Lord Romney was elected President, and was re-elected every year until his death in 1793.[2]

He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1757, Colonel of the West Kent Militia in 1759, President of The Marine Society 1756–1793, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1762.[1]

He died on 16 November 1793, and was buried in All Saints Church, Maidstone.[1]

Family

On 29 July 1742, Lord Romney married Priscilla Pym (1724–1771), daughter of Charles Pym of Saint Kitts, from whom Lord Romney inherited slave estates in Saint Kitts.[3] They had ten children:[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cracroft's Peerage. Romney, Baron (GB, 1716). 2 April 2022.
  2. Allan. D. G. C.. 1995. RSA Journal. Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney (d. 1793) and the Society. 143. 5456. 67–69. 41376636. 1 April 2022.
  3. Web site: UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery. Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney. 2 April 2022.
  4. Book: Lodge, Edmund. 1840. 7th. The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage. Romney, Earl of (Marsham). 416. https://books.google.com/books?id=kY5AAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA416. 2 April 2022.