Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet JP (20 August 1723 – 1811) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and businessman who owned Warrenscourt House (which was bought by his grandfather, Wallis Warren, in 1703) and Crookstown House (which he inherited from his father's marriage to Anne Crooke) in County Cork.
[1] He was the eldest son of Robert Warren, of Warrenscourt House, and Anne Crooke, a descendant of Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet, who founded the town of Baltimore, County Cork.
[3] Warren's Bank, which had over £500,000 on its launch in 1768,[4] funded elections and loaned money to contractors in the American War of Independence.
[7] Warren also helped to set up the Muskerry militia and target the Whiteboy movement.
He married, firstly, Mary Carré, daughter of Augustus Carre (or Carey), a wealthy merchant of Cork city, in 1748 and with her had issue:[8] He married, secondly, Elizabeth Lawton, daughter of John Lawton, in 1780 and with her had issue:[8] Through his great-great-great-grandfather, Sir George Shurley, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, he was a direct descendant of Sir William Boleyn and his wife Lady Margaret Butler through their daughter Margaret Boleyn, an aunt of Anne Boleyn.