Robert Henley-Ongley, 1st Baron Ongley
Robert Henley-Ongley, 1st Baron Ongley (c. 1721 – 23 October 1785), was a British politician.
Born Robert Henley, the son of Robert Henley of London, he assumed the additional surname of Ongley as heir to the estate of his great-uncle, Sir Samuel Ongley, of Old Warden, Bedfordshire.[1] He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and studied law at the Middle Temple.
He was returned to Parliament for Bedford in 1754, a seat he held until 1761, and then sat as a Knight of the Shire for Bedfordshire between 1761 and 1780 and again between 1784 and 1785.[2] In 1776 he was elevated to the Irish peerage as Baron Ongley, of Old Warden.[3] (An Irish peerage did not oblige him to give up his seat in the House of Commons).
Lord Ongley married Frances Gosfright, daughter and co-heir of Richard Gosfright, of Langton Hall, Essex, in 1763. They had two sons and four daughters. He died in October 1785 and was eventually laid to rest in a mausoleum in Old Warden churchyard built at his request in 1787 by his widow. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, Robert.[1]
He is buried in the Ongley Family mausoleum in the churchyard of St Leonard's church in Old Warden in Bedfordshire.
References
- ^ a b Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Twenty-Second edition, page 671. London, 1838.
- ^ "HENLEY ONGLEY, Robert (c.1721-85), of Old Warden, Beds". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ^ "No. 11679". The London Gazette. 29 June 1776. p. 1.
- 1785 deaths
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