Robert Weaver (MP)

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Arms of Weaver, adopted c. 1370: Quarterly, 1&4: Or on a fess Azure cotised Gules two garbs Or. 2: Azure on a bend cotised Argent three escallops Gules (Bohun). 3: Sable a lion rampant double-queued Argent (Wastneys)[1]

Robert Weaver (c. 1630 – 1687) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from Jan 1659 to Apr 1659.

Weaver was the son and heir of Thomas Weaver, Esq. of Aymestrey, Herefordshire[1][2][3] and his wife Anne Lewis of Radnorshire,[1][2] and cousin to Richard Weaver (MP) and Edmund Weaver (MP).[1][2][4] His father served as High Sheriff of Radnorshire in 1646 and died in 1647.[2][5]

Weaver matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 28 July 1651 and was perhaps a student at Lincoln's Inn, 1649.[3] He served as a Justice of the Peace for Herefordshire from 1653 to 1657.[4]

In 1659, Weaver was elected Member of Parliament for the Third Protectorate Parliament representing New Radnor.[3][4]

Weaver died in 1687.[6] His son and heir Robert[2][6] is memorialized in the Parish Church of St. John the Baptist and St. Alkmund of Aymestrey.

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