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The said Robert Dormer, was the second son of John Dormer, of Lee-Grange, Esq. being a branch of the ancient and noble family of the Dormers, who have long flourished in this County, for which he had the honour to be chosen twice a Representative in Parliament, as also once for the Borough of Aylesbury, and several times for Northallerton, in Yorkshire, till such time that he was advanced to the Honourable Bench which post he filled with great learning and integrity, during the space of about twenty years, enjoying it to the end of his life. By the death of his elder Brother Sir John Dormer, and his Nephew Sir William Dormer, Baronets, without issue male, the Estate at Lee-Grange, devolved upon him, and is now descended to his four daughters, Mary, Catharine, Elizabeth married to the Honourable Sir John-Fortescue Aland, of KnowlsHill, in the County of Essex, Kn'. and one of the Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas, and Ricarda, the wife of John Parkhurst, of Catesby, in the County of Northampton, Esq. Besides these, he had also a son and two daughters, who died in their Infancy.