Background
Robert Auchmuty was born in 1687 in County Longford, Ireland to John and Isabella Auchmuty. He was the third son in the family.
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Robert Auchmuty
Edit ProfileEducation
Little is known about his education; according to records, he studied law in Dublin before migrating to Boston, United States.
Career
After studying Auchmuty was called to the English bar on November 23, 1711. He settled in Boston; there, in 1733, he became a Judge in the Admiralty Court of the district, and held the post until 1747. In 1733 he also bought an estate in Roxbury (now included in Boston), a part of which descended to his son and had notable associations.
He was sent to England in 1741 as the agent for his colony in a boundary dispute with Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and he acted in the settlement of various boundary controversies. In 1745, or possibly earlier, he wrote a pamphlet The Importance of Cape Breton to the British Nation advocating an expedition to Louisburg.
Achievements
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Auchmuty not only participted in the settlement of various boundary controversies, but also became a founding member of the Land Bank, helped to reinvigorate a transatlantic law suit that sought to make Anglicanism the state-supported religion of the New England colonies and, while serving as the Massachusetts agent to Whitehall, he created a tumult by calling for more strict enforcement of the laws regulating trade.
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The Importance of Cape Breton Consider'd: In a Letter to a Member of Parliament, From an Inhabitant of New-England (Classic Reprint)
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The Importance of Cape Breton Consider'd: In a Letter to a Member of Parliament, From an Inhabitant of New-England (Classic Reprint)
Personality
According to records, he left a reputation for wit and shrewdness.
Connections
Auchmuty was married to Mary Juliana Auchmuty, they had five children.
