Robert Child (Devizes MP)

The heir to his father's banking business, the London-based Child & Co., he was Chairman of the East India Company in 1715.

[1] Robert Child was eldest surviving son of Sir Francis Child, MP, Lord Mayor of London in 1698 and Jeweller to King William III.

[2] His father took Osterley Park, after a default on its mortgage, which Child subsequently inherited.

It is Child's nephews, also named Francis and Robert, who are accredited with commissioning the building of Osterley House by Adam.

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