Background
Marsham was second son of Thomas Marsham, alderman of London, by Magdalen, daughter of Richard Springham, a London merchant.
Marsham was second son of Thomas Marsham, alderman of London, by Magdalen, daughter of Richard Springham, a London merchant.
After attending Westminster School he matriculated at Street John"s College, Oxford, on 22 October 1619. He graduated Bachelor of Arts on 17 February 1623, Master of Arts
He was also a chancery clerk and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1661. On 5 July 1625. He spent the winter of 1625 in Paris. In 1629 he went through Holland and Gelderland to the siege of "s-Hertogenbosch in Brabant.
And then by Flushing to Boulogne and Paris in the retinue of Sir Thomas Edmondes, ambassador extraordinary at the court of Louis XIII. Marsham was made one of the six clerks in chancery on 15 February 1638.
On the outbreak of the First English Civil War he followed the king to Oxford, and was consequently deprived of his place by Parliament. After the surrender of Oxford he returned to London (1646), and having compounded for his estate, he lived in retirement at his seat of Whorn Place, in the parish of Cuxton, Kent.
At the Restoration, he was restored to his place in chancery, and was knighted. On 12 August 1663 he was created a baronet.
Marsham died at Bushey Hall, Hertfordshire, on 25 May 1685, and was buried in Cuxton Church.
He was succeeded initially by the eldest son John, who purchased the Mote in Maidstone and who died in 1692 when High Sheriff of Kent, but when John"s own son John died young the baronetcy and Mote estate reverted to Robert.
In 1626 and 1627 he travelled in France, Italy, and Germany, and then returned to London, where he became a member of the Middle Temple in 1627. In April 1660, Marsham was elected a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Rochester in the Convention Parliament.