Robert Vernon Atherton Gwillym

Robert Vernon Atherton Gwillym (c.1741–1783) was a British country landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1780.

Gwillym was the second son of Robert Gwillym of Langstone, Herefordshire and his wife Elizabeth Atherton, daughter of Richard Vernon Atherton of Atherton Hall.

Robert Gwillym of Atherton and His Family (1745-1747)

He married Henrietta Maria Legh, daughter of Peter Legh of Lyme Hall in January 1763. He succeeded his brother in 1771 and inherited Atherton Hall, Leigh.[1]

At the 1774 general election, Gwillym was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Newton on the interest of his father-in-law. His attendance in Parliament was very infrequent as he suffered from poor health. His only recorded vote was for Wilkes's Middlesex resolution, and he is not recorded as having spoken. He did not stand at the 1780 general election.[1]

Gwillym took name of Atherton in 1779. He died in France on 9 July 1783. He and his wife Henrietta had two sons who died young and four daughters.[1] His daughter Henrietta married Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford.[2]

Descendants

References

  1. "GWILLYM, Robert Vernon Atherton (?1741-83), of Atherton Hall, nr. Manchester". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  2. Thomas Benolt, William Langton (1843). The Visitation of Lancashire and a Part of Cheshire: Made in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, 1533 A.D. Chetham society. p. 87. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Anthony James Keck
Peter Legh
Member of Parliament for Newton
17741780
With: Anthony James Keck
Succeeded by
Thomas Peter Legh
Thomas Davenport, KC
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