Robert Croke (died 1680)

Sir Robert Croke (c. 1609 – 8 February 1680) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1643.

Croke was the son of Sir Henry Croke, of Hampton Poyle, Oxfordshire and his wife Bridget Hawtrey, daughter of Sir William Hawtrey of Chequers.

[1] He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 31 October 1629 aged 18 and was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1635.

He was given the sinecure of Clerk of the Pipe at the Exchequer for life in 1659 and made a bencher of Gray's Inn in 1660.

[2] Chequers thereby passed to his daughter Mary, who had married John Thurbarne, sergeant-at-law and MP for Sandwich and in turn to their daughter, Joanna, the wife of John Russell, a grandson of Oliver Cromwell.