Robert Furnese

Sir Robert Furnese, 2nd Baronet (1 August 1687 – 7 March 1733), of Waldershare, Kent, and Dover Street, Westminster, was an English Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1708 to 1733.

[2] There was pressure for Furnese to stand for Thetford at the 1710 British general election, but he was appointed to the Commission of the Peace for Kent and returned in a contest as Whig MP for New Romney.

[2] On the death of his father on 30 November 1712, he succeeded to the baronetcy and a large estate at Waldershare, Kent.

[1] She was the mother of Furnese's only son Henry and his second daughter Catherine, who married her first cousin Lewis Watson, 2nd Earl of Rockingham.

[1] According to a contemporary, he died "by his own fault, for he had one of those colds hanging on him and he drank so hard that he was not sober for ten days before he was taken ill".

[1] His only son, Sir Henry Furnese, 3rd Baronet, was born about 1716 and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, aged 16 in November 1732.

[1] The estate was shared, as co-heirs, by Sir Robert's three surviving daughters: Anne, Catherine (Countess of Rockingham)[7] and Selina.