Robert Nedham

{{Short description|British-Jamaican plantation owner and politician}} '''Robert Nedham''' (1703 – August 1762) was a British-Jamaican plantation owner and politician who sat in the House of Commons for the rotten borough of Old Sarum from 1734 to 1741.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=NEDHAM, Robert (?1703-62), of Howbery Park, Oxon. and Mourne Park, co Down. {{!}} History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/nedham-robert-1703-62 |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}</ref>

== Early life == Robert Nedham was the son of Robert Nedham, a slave owner in Jamaica.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Summary of Individual {{!}} Legacies of British Slavery |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146650811 |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=www.ucl.ac.uk}}</ref> He settled permanently in England on his estates at Newry, County Down and at Oxford, Oxfordshire.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Needham's of Jamaica |url=https://nons.co.uk/Origins/Needhams_of_Jamaica.htm |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=nons.co.uk}}</ref>

== Personal life == Nedham married Catherine Pitt, the daughter of Harriet Villiers and Robert Pitt, who also served as MP for Old Sarum.<ref name=":0" />

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