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.[1]

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.[2]

In 1768 he, Richard Tonson, Sir James St Jeffryes and James Bernard founded Tonson's Bank, later to be called Warren's Bank.[3] Warren's Bank, which had over £500,000 on its launch in 1768,[4] funded elections and loaned money to contractors in the American War of Independence.[2] Warren's Bank collapsed in September 1784 owing to banking difficulties in Cork.[3][5]

In 1750 he was made a Justice of the Peace for County Cork[6] and in 1752 he served as High Sheriff of County Cork.[7] Warren also helped to set up the Muskerry militia and target the Whiteboy movement.[2]

He was made a Baronet, of Warren's Court, on 7 July 1784.

Children

He married, firstly, Mary Carré, daughter of Augustus Carre (or Carey), a wealthy merchant of Cork city, in 1748 and with her had issue:[8]

• 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.[9]
• Rose Warren.
• Charlotte Warren.
• Anne Warren.

He married, secondly, Elizabeth Lawton, daughter of John Lawton, in 1780 and with her had issue:[8]

• Richard Benson Warren, Second Serjeant-at-law (Ireland). One of his daughters, Martha Elinor Warren, married James Robert Stewart, of Gortleitragh House, Dublin, and was the mother of both Robert Warren Stewart and George Francis Stewart.[10]
• Henry Warren. His son was Robert Warren, the politician and judge.[8]
• Elizabeth Warren. She married John Bradshaw and her daughter, Mary Anne Bradshaw, married Matthew Barnewall, 6th Viscount Barnewall as his second wife (they had no issue).[11]
• Alice Warren. She married twice, firstly to Rev. John Townsend and secondly to Major Robert Wolseley, having issue from both marriages.[8]

Ancestry

Through his great-great-great-grandfather, Sir George Shurley, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, he was a direct descendant of Sir William Boleyn and his wife Lady Margaret Butler through their daughter Margaret Boleyn, an aunt of Anne Boleyn. Margaret Boleyn had married John Sackville, whose daughter Anne Sackville, a first cousin to Anne Boleyn, married Sir Nicholas Pelham. One of Sir Nicholas Pelham's daughters with Anne Sackville, Anne Pelham, had married Thomas Shurley and was the mother of Sir George Shirley.[12][13][14]

Ancestors of Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet
4. Wallis Warren 2. Robert Warren of Warrenscourt House 5. Elizabeth Knolles 1. Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet 24. Sir Samuel Crooke, 2nd Baronet 12. Sir Thomas Crooke, 3rd Baronet 25. Judith Shurley (daughter of Sir George Shurley) 6. Thomas Crooke 13. Ellen MacDermot MacCarthy 3. Anne Crooke 14. William Field (Mayor of Cork) 7. Alice Field 30. Henry Becher 15. Susannah Becher 31. Elizabeth Note

References

1. Landed Estates Database: Warren of Warren's Court
2. O'Sullivan, Aidan. The Warrens of Warrenscourt. Kilmurry Museum.
3. Eoin O’Kelly, The Old Private Banks and Bankers of Munster, pt.1: bankers of Cork and Limerick cities. (Cork, 1959).
4. The Cork Chronicle. 12 May 1768.
5. Cullen, Louise. Anglo-Irish Trade, 1660-1800. Page 171. Manchester University Press, 1968.
6. Anthony Edwards, Edward’s Cork Remembrancer, or tablet of memory (Cork, 1792).
7. "High Sheriffs of the County of Cork". Retrieved 26 September 2014.
8. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003: volume 3, page 4074
9. Bernard, Sir Burke, editor, Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, 4th ed. (London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1958), page 42.
10. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003: volume 2, page 1850.
11. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 429
12. Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926 Vol.1 p. 328
13. Pelham, Nicholas, History of Parliament Retrieved 25 February 2013.
14. Richardson 2011, pp. 385–386 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFRichardson2011 (help).