Robert Westley Hall-Dare (3 March 1789 – 20 May 1836) was a British Conservative politician who was Member of Parliament for South Essex from 1832, as a Tory, until his death in 1836.
[1] His parents owned the ‘Maria's Pleasure’ sugar plantation on Wakenaam Island in the Essequibo River,[2] which passed to Robert on his father’s death.
[6][7] The British Museum has a satirical print (c. 1818) showing Hall-Dare slicing a round pudding representing lands in the county of Essex, labelled 'Ilford to Romford'.
[3] His mortal remains rest in the family vault in St Mary's Church, Theydon Bois, Essex.
[9] Two years before his own death he commissioned a memorial bust for his father, Robert Westley Hall, from the sculptor Patrick Macdowell in St Margaret's Church, Barking, Essex.