Robert Stanley (MP)

Sir Robert Stanley KB (died 3 June 1632) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1626.

Through his paternal grandmother, he was a great-great-grandson of Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, thereby making him a direct descendant of Henry VII.

He was appointed Knight of the Order of the Bath at the coronation of King Charles I on 2 February 1626.

In 1626, he was elected Member of Parliament for Lancashire.

He was of Ormskirk, Lancashire and Chelsea, Middlesex.