Sir Robert Dashwood, 1st Baronet was an English politician.
Sir Robert Dashwood
Oxfordshire (constituency)
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Oxfordshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 18
Sir Robert Dashwood, 1st Baronet
…lending money, Dashwood enabled Prideaux to pay off the accusation. He was elected three times as Member of Parliament for Banbury from 1689; and for Oxfordshire in November 1699, losing his seat in 1700. As the 1690s proceeded, he became identified with the Country Party opposition. On 9 June 1683 Dashwood…
Hogarth's painting The Polling (1755), one of a series depicting the Oxfordshire election of 1754