Robert Knollys (politician, died 1659)

Sir Robert Knollys (1588–1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1629.

He matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford on 13 May 1603, aged 15.

In 1628 he was elected MP for Wallingford and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.

[1] Knollys bought Greys Court from his uncle, William Knollys, Earl of Banbury,who died at the age of about 70 and was buried on 26 June 1659.

[1] Knollys also received a generous inheritance from another uncle, the Elizabethan soldier Captain Sir Thomas Higham[2] He married Joan, the daughter of Sir John Wolstenholme and left a son and several daughters; one child was Lettice Knollys or Laetitia Knowles, who married Sir John Corbet (1619–64), second of the Corbet baronets of Stoke.