Sir Robert Hildyard, 2nd Baronet (1671 – 30 November 1729), of Patrington and Winestead in the East Riding of Yorkshire , was an English landowner and Member of Parliament .
He was the eldest son of Christopher Hildyard ; he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his grandfather, Sir Robert Hildyard, 1st Baronet on 7 March 1685. He served in Parliament as member for Hedon from December 1701 to July 1702. He was responsible for building Winestead Hall .[ 1]
He was Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the East Riding Regiment of Militia at the time of the Jacobite rising of 1715 .[ 2]
Hildyard never married. On his death in 1729, the baronetcy passed to his nephew, Sir Robert Hildyard, 3rd Baronet .
References
^ Hildyard family, of Winestead , University Archives, Hull University^ Col R.W.S. Norfolk, Militia, Yeomanry and Volunteer Forces of the East Riding 1689–1908 , York: East Yorkshire Local History Society, 1965, Appendix I, p. 41.
