WROTH, Robert (1660-1720), of Burpham, nr. Guildford, Surr.

Wroth owned an estate near Guildford, carrying with it a considerable interest in the borough, for which he sat in 1705 and again in 1710, when he was unseated ‘for not being acceptable to those who were then in power’, i.e. the Tory majority of the House of Commons. At George I’s accession he was made a clerk of the Green Cloth by the ‘procurement or assistance’ of the 1st Lord Onslow, for whose family he had always shown ‘an unalterable attachment’.HMC 14th Rep. IX, 503. Brought in for Guildford by the 2nd Lord Onslow, at a by-election in 1717, he voted with the Administration till his death, 4 Feb. 1720.