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Roberts, John, ca. 1712-1772
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ca. 1712-1772
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ROBERTS, JOHN, son of Edward Roberts, Chester, Deputy Registrar, Diocese of Chester, and Elizabeth ---; b.; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1723; in school list 1727/8; took part of Mark Antony in play of Julius Caesar, acted by the boys “at the theatre over against the Opera House” in Jan 1727/8 (Life and Correspondence of Mrs Delany, 1st Series, i, 158); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1728, Canoneer Student 19 Dec 1728 – void 26 Jun 1742; BA 1732; MA 18 Mar 1734/5; tutor to son of Henry Pelham (qv); employed by Pelham as his secretary during Pelham’s tenure of posts of First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer Aug 1743 – Mar 1754; managed for Pelham the payment of secret service money; Deputy Paymaster, Gibraltar 1743-61; Inspector of Outports, Customs 1746-62; MP Harwich from 1761; a Commissioner for Trade and Foreign Plantations 23 Oct 1761 – Dec 1762, and from 20 Jul 1765; m.; d. 13 Jul 1772. Monument in South Transept, Westminster Abbey. 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.