Robert Markland

Robert Markland was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659.

Markland was of a Wigan family which was long resident in borough and possessed of considerable local influence. He was a manufacturer or mercer.[1]

In 1659, Markland was elected Member of Parliament for Wigan in the Third Protectorate Parliament.[2]

References
  1. William Duncombe Pink, Alfred B. Beaven The parliamentary representation of Lancashire, (county and borough), 1258-1885, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members, &c. (1889)
  2. Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
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