Abraham Robarts (MP for Worcester)

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.

Together, they had four sons and five daughters, including:[1] Robarts died a wealthy man upon his death on 26 November 1816.

[1] Through his son Abraham, he was a grandfather of banker Abraham George Robarts, who married Elizabeth Sarah Smyth (daughter of John Henry Smyth and Lady Elizabeth FitzRoy of Heath Hall).

[12] Through his daughter Sidney, he was a grandfather of Henry Robarts Madocks (c. 1825–1902), who married Hon.

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