Sir Robert Hildyard, 2nd Baronet explained

Sir Robert Hildyard, 2nd Baronet (1671 – 30 November 1729), of Patrington and Winestead in the East Riding of Yorkshire, was an English landowner and Member of Parliament.

He was the eldest son of Christopher Hildyard; he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his grandfather, Sir Robert Hildyard, 1st Baronet on 7 March 1685. He served in Parliament as member for Hedon from December 1701 to July 1702. He was responsible for building Winestead Hall.^[1]

He was Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the East Riding Regiment of Militia at the time of the Jacobite rising of 1715.^[2]

Hildyard never married. On his death in 1729, the baronetcy passed to his nephew, Sir Robert Hildyard, 3rd Baronet.

References

• • Hildyard genealogy

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Notes and References

1. http://www.hull.ac.uk/arc/collection/landedfamilyandestatepapers/hildyard.html Hildyard family, of Winestead
2. Col R.W.S. Norfolk, Militia, Yeomanry and Volunteer Forces of the East Riding 1689–1908, York: East Yorkshire Local History Society, 1965, Appendix I, p. 41.