Robert Willimot

Sir Robert Willimot (died 1746), of Banstead, Surrey, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1741.

On 19 March 1735 he reported on the conclusions of a committee appointed to find ways of preventing wool smuggling from England and Ireland to the continent.

He became a member of the Coopers Company in 1736 and was elected alderman, for Lime Street, on 28 January 1736, remaining for the rest of his life.

[1] Willimot supported a merchants’ petition on Spanish depredations on 3 March 1738, with a letter in his hand giving details of English sailors held in chains by the Spaniards.

[2] At the conclusion of his term of office, he was thanked by the common council of the city for his ‘constant attendance’, his ‘judicious and faithful discharge of his duties’, for the ‘easy access given to his fellow citizens’, and for the ‘frequent opportunities he gave’ for the council to meet and deal with the public business of the city.