Robert Nedham

Robert Nedham (1703 – August 1762) was a British-Jamaican plantation owner and politician who sat in the House of Commons for the rotten borough of Old Sarum from 1734 to 1741.

[1] Robert Nedham was the son of Robert Nedham, a slave owner in Jamaica.

[2] He settled permanently in England on his estates at Newry, County Down and at Oxford, Oxfordshire.

[3] Nedham married Catherine Pitt, the daughter of Harriet Villiers and Robert Pitt, who also served as MP for Old Sarum.

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