Robert Wynter Blathwayt

Robert Wynter Blathwayt JP was an English landowner.

Early life

Robert Blathwayt was born on 7 July 1850 at Heybridge, the former home of his mother in Lower Tean, Staffordshire. He was the son of the Rev. Wynter Thomas Blathwayt, rector of Dyrham, and Frances Elizabeth "Fanny" Blathwayt. He had two brothers, George William Wynter Blathwayt and the Rev. Wynter Edward Blathwayt. After his mother's death from tuberculosis in 1869, his father married Mary Sarah Oates in 1876.
His paternal grandparents were Col. George William Blathwayt and Marianne Blathwayt. His maternal grandparents were Robert Philips and Laetitia Philips.

In 1909, he inherited the family seat, Dyrham Park, following the death of his father.
A lord of the manor of Dyrham, Langridge and Porlock, he also served as justice of the peace.

On 9 October 1879, he married Margaret Ermentrude Chandos-Pole-Gell, a daughter of Henry Chandos Pole Gell of Hopton Hall, and, his first wife, Henrietta Auriol Drummond-Hay. There were no children of the marriage.
Blathwayt died on 2 November 1936 and was buried at St Peter's Churchyard in Dyrham. After his death, Dyrham Park passed to the children of his cousin, Henry Wynter Blathwayt, who was killed at the Battle of Cambrai in 1917.