Abraham Robarts (MP for Worcester)

Abraham Robarts (1745–1816) was an English banker and politician. He was a factor in the West Indies trade, and a director of the East India Company.[1]

Life

Early in his career he was a partner with James Tierney in the firm of Tierney, Lilly and Robarts, Spanish merchants.

He became a Director of the Royal Exchange Insurance Company from 1781–86 and then served as a director of the East India Company 6 times between 1786 and 1815, normally for three years each time.[2]

In 1792 he became a city banker in partnership with Sir William Curtis in the firm of Robarts, Curtis, Were, Hornygold and Beswick, of Cornhill.

Robarts went into politics first in 1784, as an unsuccessful candidate in Wootton Bassett. He established himself as Member of Parliament at Worcester in 1796, when his local banking associate Edmund Lechmere MP (1747–1798) got into financial difficulties and had to give up the seat. Robarts was an uncontested candidate, and won successive terms, sitting until his death in 1816.[1]

He died a wealthy man in 1816.

Family

Robarts married Sabine Tierney, sister of George Tierney, and they had four sons and five daughters.[1] The children included:

Mrs Charles Thellusson (the former Sabine Robarts), portrait by Thomas Lawrence

Notes
  1. "Robarts, Abraham (1745–1816), of Finsbury Square, Moorfields, London and North End, Hampstead, Mdx., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  2. "The Directors of the East India Company, 1754-1790" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 November 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  3. "Summary of Individual Abraham Wildey Robarts, Legacies of British Slave-ownership". Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  4. Sir Bernard Burke (1871). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 870.
  5. Michael Kassler (2011). The Music Trade in Georgian England. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 469. ISBN 978-0-7546-6065-1.
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