Robert Vyner (1686–1777)

Robert Vyner (1686–1777) of Swakeleys, Middlesex, and Gautby, Lincolnshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 27 years between 1710 and 1761.

He succeeded his father to Swakeleys in 1707 and inherited his extensive Lincolnshire estates, acquired by his great uncle, Charles II’s banker.

[2] In 1741, Vyner sold the family mansion at Swakeleys to Benjamin Lethieullier[3] and moved to Gautby Hall in Lincolnshire,.

On 14 June 1758 he and his son were with George Townshend, Edward Montagu, and Thomas Staunton, in a minority of five against an increase of the judges’ salaries and on 26 January 1759 he opposed Pitt’s motion for a subsidy for the King of Prussia.

On 30 October 1760 he let himself be put up against Thomas Whichcot, his fellow Member for 20 years, on a joint interest with Sir John Thorold, but this proved unpopular and he withdrew from the contest at the 1761 general election in around the middle of January 1761.

[7] Vyner married, as his second wife, Delicia de Pipre of Upper Brook Street, London on 3 June 1758.