Robert Gay (MP)

Robert Gay FRS (c. 1676–1738), of Hatton Garden, Middlesex and Walcot, Bath, was an English surgeon and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1720 and 1734.

He was re-elected MP for Bath at the 1727 general election but did not stand in 1734.

[3] Gay leased to John Wood the Elder the land of Barton Farm in the Walcot estate for the building of Queen Square, Bath and for Gay Street, Bath, which was thereby named after him.

[3] The Walcot estate passed to his daughter Margaret by his second wife.

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Four Bath Worthies . From left Richard Jones (clerk of works at Prior Park), Ralph Allen , Robert Gay , and John Wood the Elder