Robert Stearne Tighe
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Robert Stearne Tighe (1760–1835) was an Irish writer and Fellow of the Royal Society.
He was the son of Richard Stearne Tighe (died December 1761), Member of the Irish House of Commons for Athy, and his wife Arabella, daughter of Sir John Osborne, 7th Baronet and Edith Proby, born 3 March 1760.[1] He entered St John's College, Cambridge in 1776, and in the same year inherited the estate of his grandfather Robert Tighe.[2]
Tighe was elected to the Royal Society in 1793.[2] He died on 21 May 1835.[1]
