Sir Robert Slingsby, 1st Baronet

[1] He was born at Bifrons near Canterbury, the second son of Sir Guylford Slingsby, Controller of the Navy, and Margaret Walter.

Robert's eldest brother Guildford Slingsby was a promising young politician and lawyer who was killed early in the English Civil War.

[3] At the Restoration he was given his father's old office of Comptroller of the Navy, and was created the first and last of the Slingsby baronets of Newcells.

Samuel Pepys praised the great efforts Slingsby had taken over the book, but added drily that he had too high an opinion of his own work.

Both Batten and Penn professed grief at Slingsby's death, but Pepys dismissed them as a pair of hypocrites.