Robartes, Francis
(1649/50–1718)
- C. I. McGrath
Extract
Robartes, Francis (1649/50–1718), politician and natural philosopher, was baptized on 6 January 1650, the sixth son of John Robartes, second Baron Robartes and later first earl of Radnor (1606–1685), politician, and his second wife, Letitia Isabella (d. 1714), daughter of Sir John Smith...