Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet [SEP] date of birth
Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet (December 1717 – 29 April 1798) of Haldon House in the parish of Kenn, in Devon, England, was an officer of the British East India Company who served as Governor of the Madras Presidency. In England he served as MP for Ashburton in 1767 and between 1774 and 1787 and for Wareham, between 1768 and 1774.
Origins.
Robert Palk was born in December 1717 at Lower Headborough Farm in the parish of Ashburton, Devon,
Baron Haldon
Baron Haldon, of Haldon, in the County of Devon, was a title created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 29 May 1880, for Sir Lawrence Palk, 4th Baronet and became extinct upon the death of the fifth baron in 1939.
Palk baronets, of Haldon House, Devon (1782).
- Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet (1717–1798)
- Sir Lawrence Palk, 2nd Baronet (–1813)
- Sir Lawrence Vaughan Palk, 3rd Baronet (1793–1860)