Gerald Robarts

Gerald Robarts (15 April 1878 – 27 December 1961) was a British Army officer, banker, and leading squash rackets player.

[3] He was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1869, and in 1882 he built Tile House, Lillingstone Dayrell, where he later lived, designed by Ewan Christian and described by Pevsner as “Neo-Elizabethan, big and forbidding with groups of huge chimneys.

[5] Through his paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Sarah Smyth, Robarts was a descendant of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, an illegitimate son of King Charles II.

The third Duke’s daughter Lady Georgiana Fitzroy (1757–1799), married John Smyth, a Whig politician, who was Robarts's great-grandfather.

His father's first cousin Diana Elizabeth Smyth married Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood, and her great-grandson George Lascelles was the husband of Mary, Princess Royal, only daughter of George V.[citation needed] Robarts's father, Abraham, was the last of an unbroken line all called Abraham Robarts stretching back to the 17th century.