Robert Needham, 2nd Viscount Kilmorey

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Robert Needham, 2nd Viscount Kilmorey, (c. 1591 – 12 September 1653) was an English Royalist and supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War.

He was born about 1591, the son of Sir Robert Needham, 1st Viscount Kilmorey and Jane Lacy (daughter of John Lacy of Borston or Borseton). In the reign of King James I of England the Needham family were actively involved as "planters" in the Plantation of Ulster. For his support his father was granted the Feudal Barony of Orhera in County Armagh in 1613 and was created Viscount Kilmorey by Charles I in 1625.

Robert Needham married Frances Anderson, daughter of Alderman Sir Henry Anderson of London and Elizabeth Bowyer and they had two children, Robert and Frances. In about 1623 he married Eleanor Dutton, daughter of Thomas Dutton of Dutton. Eleanor was the widow of Gilbert Gerard, 2nd Baron Gerard of Gerard's Bromley, Staffordshire. Robert and Eleanor had twelve children including a son Charles.

He was a Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire in 1614 and his name appears among those having a proxy in the Irish House of Lords on 30 July 1634. At the death of his father in 1631 he became 2nd Viscount Kilmorey and 2nd Feudal Baron of Orhera. He died at Dutton, Cheshire 12 September 1653.

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Robert Needham	Viscount Kilmorey 1631–1653	Succeeded by Robert Needham

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• Line of Descent for the Needhams
• newryabbey.com