Sir Robert Abdy, 3rd Baronet
- Sir Robert Abdy, 3rd Baronet
Sir Robert Abdy, 3rd Baronet FSA (1688 – 27 August 1748) was a British politician.
Baptised on 8 April 1688, he was the son of Sir John Abdy, 2nd Baronet and Jane Nicholas, the daughter of Sir Edward Nicholas. He succeeded to his father's baronetcy as a child, in 1691. Abdy was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1705.
On 5 July 1711, he married Theodosia Bramstone, daughter of George Bramstone in St Christopher le Stocks in London. They had two daughters and two sons, including John Abdy.
From 1727 to 1748, he was a Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Essex. A committed Tory, he was to have been one of the leaders of the 1744 Jacobite rising in Essex, and was privy to the military details of the planned French invasion.
Abdy was further a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). He died, aged 60 and was buried in Stapleford Abbots in Essex.
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*cite book | title=The House of Commons 1715-1754 v. 1 | first=Romney | last=Sedgwick | page=405 | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=New York | year=1970
*cite web | url= http://www.thepeerage.com/p50.htm#i491| title= thePeerage| accessdate= 2007-03-11
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