Gabriel Roberts

Gabriel Roberts (c. 1665–c.1744) of Ampthill, Bedfordshire, was an official of the East India Company and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1713 and 1734.

In 1678, he inherited a third part of his father's estate, and in 1683 he joined the East India Company as a writer.

[1] On his return to England, Roberts acquired a property at Ampthill, Bedfordshire from the Bruce family.

He supported the Government, voting for the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts and the Peerage Bill.

[3] He ended his term as a director of the South Sea Company in 1733 and did not stand at the 1734 general election.