Robert Lawley, 1st Baron Wenlock
- Robert Lawley, 1st Baron Wenlock
Robert Lawley, 1st Baron Wenlock (1768 – 10 April 1834) was a British landowner and politician, the eldest son of Sir Robert Lawley, 5th Baronet and Jane Thompson.
His seat was Canwell Hall, Staffordshire and he served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1797.
He married Anna Maria Denison (d. 1850), daughter of the banker Joseph Denison, but had no children.
He died in Florence. [cite journal | title=Letters of Horatio Greenough to Robert Weir | first=Nathalia | last=Wright | coauthors=Horatio Greenough | journal=The New England Quarterly | volume=49 | number=4 | month=December | year=1976 | pages=499–520 | url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0028-4866%28197612%2949%3A4%3C499%3ALOHGTR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A | accessdate=2006-10-31 | issue=4 | doi=10.2307/364731]
External links
* [http://www.hints-village.com/lawleys.htm Text of memorial]
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