Carr, Robert, Sir, 3rd Baronet (1637 -1682)

Sir Robert Carr, was the only son of Sir Robert Carr, 2nd Baronet, and Mary, daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Gargrave, of Nostell in Yorkshire. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted a Fellow Commoner 6 March 1654, age 16, matriculated in 1655, and took his M.A. the same year. He married, firstly, 13 July 1662, Isabel Falkingham, and perhaps bigamously, after March 1664, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Bennet, of Dawley, Harlington, in Middlesex. He was knighted before 1664, becoming the 3rd Baronet, of Aswarby in Lincolnshire 14 August 1667. He was elected a Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire from 1664 to 1681, and was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1672 until his death 17 November 1682.