Robert Hatton (Royalist)

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Sir Robert Hatton (died 10 January 1653) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the

Royalist cause in the English Civil War
.

Hatton was the second son of John Hatton of Longstanton, Cambridgeshire and his wife Joan Shute, daughter of Robert Shute (a baron of the Exchequer).[1][2] He was admitted at Gray's Inn as of Clynton, Cambridgeshire on 2 February 1602.[3] Sir Thomas Hatton, 1st Baronet was his brother. He inherited the estates of Oakington, Cambridgeshire from his mother and probably lived there from about 1610.[2] He was knighted at Whitehall on 12 March 1617.[4] He also possessed the property of Oswalds in Bishopsbourne.[5]

He served for many years as steward to the

Member of Parliament for Sandwich, but his election was declared void as the mayor had effectively disenfranchised part of the electorate.[6] He was elected as MP for Sandwich in 1624 and 1625.[7]

In 1641 Hatton was elected MP for

Commission of Array. He was appointed a Chamberlain of the Exchequer in 1644 but fled overseas after 1646 to escape his creditors. His estate at Oakington was under sequestration for ten years, and apparently not compounded for.[2] On 1 July 1651 parliament directed for his estates to be sold.[8]

Hatton died in 1653.

Sir Anthony Aucher, 1st Baronet who recovered Hatton's estates.[2]

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Parliament of England
Preceded by
Sir Edwin Sandys
Succeeded by
Sir Edwin Sandys
John Burroughes
Preceded by
Sir Edwin Sandys
John Burroughes
Member of Parliament for Sandwich
1624–1626
With: Francis Drake (1624)
Sir Henry Wotton
(1625)
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Member of Parliament for Castle Rising
1641–1642
With: Sir John Holland
Succeeded by