Robert Sawyer (Attorney General)

Sir Robert Sawyer, of Highclere Castle (1633–1692) was the Attorney General for England and Wales (1681–1687) and, briefly, Speaker of the English House of Commons.

Robert was a younger son of Sir Edmund Sawyer, of Heywood Lodge, at White Waltham, in Berkshire, who was Auditor of the Exchequer.

He attended Magdalene College, Cambridge,[1] where he was a contemporary of Samuel Pepys and later became a benefactor of the library there.

Sir Robert prosecuted members of the Rye House Plot and also Titus Oates.

He returned to private practice, and scored a great triumph as defence counsel in the Trial of the Seven Bishops.