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PASTON, ROBERT, 1ST EARL OF YARMOUTH, eldest son of Sir William Paston, Bart. , and Lady Katherine Bertie, dau. of Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey; b. 29 May 1631; at school under Busby (GEC, Complete Peerage, viii, 210); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 10 Mar 1645/6, but did not matr. ; knighted 27 May 1660; MP Thetford 1660, Castle Rising 1661 – 19 Aug 1673; succ. father as 2nd baronet 22 Feb 1662/3; a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber 25 Jan 1666/7; created Viscount Yarmouth 19 Aug 1673; Lord Lieut. , Norfolk, from 6 Mar 1675/6; Joint Surveyor of the Green Wax 24 Jan 1677/8; created Earl of Yarmouth 30 Jul 1679; m. c. 1650 Rebecca, second dau. of Sir Jasper Clayton, parish of St. Edmund the King, London; d. 8 Mar 1682/3. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.