Notes:

Died:
Died in infancy.

Other Events:

• Residence: Lackham, Wiltshire, England
• Office: From 1584 to 1585; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Chippenham
• Office: From 1586 to 1587; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Westbury
• Decoration: Jan. 1618; Knighthood
• Office: 1629; High Sheriff of Wiltshire
• Will: 16 March 1635/36

Notes:

Died:
Note that this date of death may be erroneous given that the Lacock register states that Sir Robert Baynard was buried 7 June 1636. He certainly died between 16 March (the date of his will) and 7 June, 1636.

Robert married Ursula Stapylton. Ursula (daughter of Sir Robert Stapylton and Olive Sherrington) was christened on 10 July 1587 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England; was buried on 9 Nov. 1623 in Lacock, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
The monumental inscription reads as follows:—
"Heare lyeth the Body of the Lady Vrsula Baynard, Daughter of Sir Robert Stapilton of Wyghall in the County of Yorke, Knight, and wife to Sir Robert Baynard, Knight, by whome shee had Issue Edward her Sonne heare buryed, and Mary hir Daughter. She lyved to the age of 36 yeares, and departed to God in most firme fayth in Christ in the yeare of our Lorde God 1623.
"Gods goodness made her wise and well beseeming,
Discreet and Prudent, Constant, True and Chaste,
Hir virtues rare won her much esteeming,
In Courte and Country, still with favour graste,
Earth could not yelde more pleasing earthly blisse,
Blest wth. two babes, though Death brought hir to this."

Other Events:

• Residence: Wighill, Yorkshire, England
• Office: 1569; Captain of the City of York
• Office: From 1580 to 1581; High Sheriff of Yorkshire

Notes:

He built a new house at Wighill about 1580.

He came under the ban of Star Chamber for his quarrel with Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York (Strype's Annals).

Sir John Harrington said "he was a man well spoken, properly seen in languages, a comely and good personage, had scarce an equal, and, next to Sir Philip Sidney, no superior in England."

Office:
In the Earl's rebellion in 1569. An attack of the rebels was apprehended (Memorials of the Rebellion, by Sir C. Sharpe).

Office:
While he was Sheriff, he met the judges with seven score men in livery (Camden's Britannia).

Robert married Olive Sherrington. Olive (daughter of Sir Henry Sherrington) died in 1646; was buried in Lacock, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1634, Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire, England

Other Events:

• Residence: Lacock, Wiltshire, England