Notes:

Died unmarried.

Other Events:

• Residence: Wighill, Yorkshire, England
• Office: 1569; Captain of the City of York
• Office: From 1580 to 1581; High Sheriff of Yorkshire

Notes:

He built a new house at Wighill about 1580.

He came under the ban of Star Chamber for his quarrel with Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York (Strype's Annals).

Sir John Harrington said "he was a man well spoken, properly seen in languages, a comely and good personage, had scarce an equal, and, next to Sir Philip Sidney, no superior in England."

Office:
In the Earl's rebellion in 1569. An attack of the rebels was apprehended (Memorials of the Rebellion, by Sir C. Sharpe).

Office:
While he was Sheriff, he met the judges with seven score men in livery (Camden's Britannia).

Robert married Olive Sherrington. Olive (daughter of Sir Henry Sherrington) died in 1646; was buried in Lacock, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1634, Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire, England

Other Events:

• Residence: Lacock, Wiltshire, England