Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney (17 September 1685 – 28 November 1724) of The Mote, Maidstone, known as Sir Robert Marsham, Bt between 1703 and 1716, was an English Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1716 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Romney.
[4] He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford on 9 August 1701, aged 15[5] and succeeded his father in the baronetcy on 26 July 1703.
He was one of the Members ordered to draft a bill to ascertain the tithe of hops and presented it on 10 May 1710, but it made no further progress.
He continually opposed the Tory administration throughout the Parliament, voting against an amendment to the South Sea bill on 15 May 1711, and for the "No Peace Without Spain" motion on 7 December 1711.
[2] Lady Romney married as her second husband John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford and died in November 1750, aged 58.