Robert Robert Heron

November 27, 1765 (age 88)

Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire

He sat in the House of Commons from 1812 to 1847, with a break in 1818–1819. He held the seat until the next general election, in 1818, when he did not stand again in Grimsby. He did however, stand in 1818, for election in Lincolnshire County, though unsuccessfully. He returned to the Commons the following year, when he was elected at a by-election in November 1819 as an Member of Parliament for Peterborough. He held that seat until the 1847 general election, when he did not stand again. Heron owned, a large estate at Stubton (near Newark-on-Trent) on the border of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. The estate had belonged to the Heron family from since 1789, and the 17th-century hall was extensively rebuilt in the early 19th-century by Sir Robert. He had initially used it as a summer retreat, but after being elected to he decided to make Stubton his main home. The architect Jeffry Wyatt drew up plans for remodelling, which had to be revised after the building was found to be in a poorer condition than was thought, and the resulting works were a big drain on Heron"s finances: in January 1814 he recorded in his diary that he had spent £7,000 just get the building "covered in". He also kept a large menagerie, and successfully bred a range of exotic animals including llamas, alpacas. lemurs, porcupines, armadillos and kangaroos. The estate passed to George Nevile, a relation of Amelia, and then to Sir Ralph Wilmot, 6th Baronet, on whose death it was sold to Edmund Royds.

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He was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, the son of Thomas Heron of Chilham Castle, Kent, Recorder of Newark and educated at Street John"s College, Cambridge.

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Street John"s College.

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He sat in the House of Commons from 1812 to 1847, with a break in 1818–1819. He held the seat until the next general election, in 1818, when he did not stand again in Grimsby. He did however, stand in 1818, for election in Lincolnshire County, though unsuccessfully.

He returned to the Commons the following year, when he was elected at a by-election in November 1819 as an Member of Parliament for Peterborough.

He held that seat until the 1847 general election, when he did not stand again. Heron owned, a large estate at Stubton (near Newark-on-Trent) on the border of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.

The estate had belonged to the Heron family from since 1789, and the 17th-century hall was extensively rebuilt in the early 19th-century by Sir Robert. He had initially used it as a summer retreat, but after being elected to he decided to make Stubton his main home.

The architect Jeffry Wyatt drew up plans for remodelling, which had to be revised after the building was found to be in a poorer condition than was thought, and the resulting works were a big drain on Heron"s finances: in January 1814 he recorded in his diary that he had spent £7,000 just get the building "covered in".

He also kept a large menagerie, and successfully bred a range of exotic animals including llamas, alpacas. lemurs, porcupines, armadillos and kangaroos. The estate passed to George Nevile, a relation of Amelia, and then to Sir Ralph Wilmot, 6th Baronet, on whose death it was sold to Edmund Royds.

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He served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1809-1810 and was then elected at the 1812 general election as a member of parliament (Member of Parliament) for Great Grimsby.

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