Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet


Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet JP was an Anglo-Irish landowner and businessman who owned Warrenscourt House and Crookstown House in County Cork.

Life

He was the eldest son of Robert Warren, of Warrenscourt House, and Anne Crooke, a descendant of Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet, who founded the town of Baltimore, County Cork.
In 1768 he, Richard Tonson, Sir James St Jeffryes and James Bernard founded Tonson's Bank, later to be called Warren's Bank. Warren's Bank, which had over £500,000 on its launch in 1768, funded elections and loaned money to contractors in the American War of Independence. Warren's Bank collapsed in September 1784 owing to banking difficulties in Cork.
In 1750 he was made a Justice of the Peace for County Cork and in 1752 he served as High Sheriff of County Cork. Warren also helped to set up the Muskerry militia and target the Whiteboy movement.
He was made a Baronet, of Warren's Court, on 7 July 1784.

Children

He married, firstly, Mary Carré, daughter of Augustus Carre, a wealthy merchant of Cork city, in 1748 and with her had issue:
He married, secondly, Elizabeth Lawton, daughter of John Lawton, in 1780 and with her had issue:
Through his great-great-great-grandfather, Sir George Shurley, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, he was a direct descendant of Sir William Boleyn and his wife Lady Margaret Butler through their daughter Margaret Boleyn, an aunt of Anne Boleyn. Margaret Boleyn had married John Sackville, whose daughter Anne Sackville, a first cousin to Anne Boleyn, married Sir Nicholas Pelham. One of Sir Nicholas Pelham's daughters with Anne Sackville, Anne Pelham, had married Thomas Shurley and was the mother of Sir George Shirley.