Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (1610-20 September 1643) was an English peer and Royalist general during the English Civil War.
Biography[]
Robert Dormer was born in 1610, a grandson of Robert Dormer, 1st Baron Dormer and the maternal grandson of Robert Molyneux, 1st Baronet. Dormer was raised a Catholic and became a high-living courtier under King James I of England and Charles I of England. Dormer graduated from Oxford in 1624 despite having a wild youth, and he became a regular masque performer at court. An ardent Royalist, he was made Earl of Carnarvon in 1628 and Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire in 1641, and he defied his father-in-law by fighting for King Charles I during the English Civil War. He led the Royalist cavalry at the Battle of Lansdowne before being killed by a Parliamentarian cavalry trooper at the First Battle of Newbury in 1643.