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SAWYER, SIR ROBERT, sixth son of Sir Edmund Sawyer, Kt, Heywood, Maidenhead, Berks., Auditor of the Exchequer, and his second wife Anne, dau. of Sir William Whitmore, Kt, Apley, Shropshire; bapt. 20 Sep 1633; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1648 (Chapter Muniments 43054); Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1648, matr. Mich. 1648; “chamber fellow” of Samuel Pepys (Pepys, Diary, ed. Wheatley, vi, 81, vii, 229, viii, 30); Craven Scholar 16 May 1649; BA 1651/2; MA 1655 (incorp. Oxford 10 Jul 1655); Goche Fellow, Magdalene Coll. 1652, Dennis Fellow 1654; adm. Inner Temple Nov 1653, called to bar 26 May 1661, Bencher 28 Oct 1677, Treasurer Oct 1683 – Oct 1688; practised in Court of Exchequer and on Oxford Circuit; KC (query date); MP Chipping Wycombe Nov 1673 – Jan 1678/9, Cambridge Univ. Jan 1688/9 – 20 Jan 1689/90 (when expelled for his conduct in the case of Sir Thomas Armstrong in 1684) and from Feb 1689/90; knighted 17 Oct 1677; Speaker, House of Commons 11 Apr – 6 May 1678, resigning on grounds of health; assisted in drafting the Exclusion Bill of 1678; Attorney-Gen., 14 Feb 1681 – Dec 1687; represented the Crown when the case against the Charter of the City of London was argued Apr 1682; conducted Rye House Plot prosecutions 1683-4; appeared against Algernon Sidney Nov 1683 and against Titus Oates May 1685; senior counsel for the Seven Bishops Jun 1688; for a summary of his character and career see Macaulay, History of England, 1855, iii, 524-8; lic. to m. 1 Jul 1665 Margaret, dau. of Ralph Suckling, Canonbury House, Islington, Middlesex; d. 28 Jul 1692. 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.