Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney

Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney FRS FSA (22 August 1712 – 16 November 1793)[1] was a British peer and patron of the arts.

Lord Romney was the son of Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney and his wife Elizabeth Shovell, daughter of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell.

He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1731 aged 18, graduating D.C.L.

[1] He died on 16 November 1793, and was buried in All Saints Church, Maidstone.

[1] On 29 July 1742, Lord Romney married Priscilla Pym (1724–1771), daughter of Charles Pym of Saint Kitts, from whom Lord Romney inherited slave estates in Saint Kitts.