Sir Roger Gresley, 8th Baronet (27 December 1799 – 12 October 1837) was an English writer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1837.
He entered Christ Church, Oxford on 17 October 1817, where he remained until 1819, leaving the university without a degree.
In 1827 he sold Sir Nigel Gresley's Canal which his grandfather had built in connection with his mining interests.
[5] Gresley was groom of the bedchamber to the Duke of Sussex, Captain of the Lichfield Troop of the Staffordshire Yeomanry (commissioned on 28 September 1819),[6] and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
His widow remarried to Sir Henry des Voeux, Baronet and vicar of Stapenhill-cum-Caldwell.