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Robert Sawyer (Attorney General)

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four years later. He was elected speaker in 1678, but had to resign in under a month because of health problems. Three years later he was made attorney-general. Sir Robert prosecuted members of the
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He died at Highclere on 30 July 1692 and was buried in the old church there. He had married Margaret Suckeley and had one daughter, Margaret Sawyer, who married
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and took part in a number of well-known cases. He later became treasurer of Inner Temple.
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and later became a benefactor of the library there. Upon leaving university, he became a
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Robert was a younger son of Sir Edmund Sawyer, of Heywood Lodge, at
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Highclere Castle
Attorney General for England and Wales
Speaker of the English House of Commons
White Waltham
Berkshire
Auditor of the Exchequer
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Samuel Pepys
barrister
Inner Temple
MP
High Wycombe
knighted
Rye House Plot
Titus Oates
Trial of the Seven Bishops
Highclere
Hampshire
Highclere Castle
Cambridge University
Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
Highclere Castle
"Sawyer, Robert (SWR648R)"
History of Parliament Online - Sawyer Robert
"Sawyer, Robert" 
Dictionary of National Biography
Sir Edward Seymour
Speaker of the House of Commons

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