Sir Robert Pye (1585–1662) was an English courtier, administrator and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1629.
[1] He became Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer under King James I in 1620.
[3] He purchased the manor and estate of Faringdon, which at that time was in Berkshire, from the Unton family.
[2] Pye was a supporter of the King, and on this account was deprived of his office in 1642.
During the Civil War he garrisoned his mansion at Faringdon for the Royalists, and it was stoutly besieged by his own son, Robert, who espoused the Parliamentary cause.