Sir Robert Way Harty, 1st Baronet (27 December 1779 � 1832) 
was a British politician and Whig Member of Parliament representing Dublin City 
for a few months in 1831.

Harty was the Lord Mayor of Dublin when elected to Parliament. 
He was created 1st Baronet (Harty of Prospect House, Dublin) in 1831. 
The formal creation, according to Leigh Rayment, was 30 September 1831, 
but it must have been known about earlier as The Times (of London) in its 
edition of 23 May 1831 reporting the result of the Dublin election, referred 
to Harty as a Baronet.

In the UK General Election of 1831 Harty was, on 19 May 1831, 
declared elected to one of the two seats for Dublin City. 
The defeated Tory candidates presented an election petition against Harty and 
his colleague Louis Perrin. The Whig MPs were unseated in August and a new 
election ordered. Harty was never again to stand for election to Parliament.

Harty's daughter Emma-Jane Adelaide (1828-1919) married 
George Henry Haigh DL JP (1829-1887, Repton, Trinity College Cambridge) 
of The Shay, Halifax, and Grainsby Hall, Lincs in 1859. 
The Haighs were a fabulously wealthy family who had made their fortune 
in wool and were busy transforming themselves into the upper ranks 
of the landed gentry. Apart from owning huge estates in Yorkshire and 
Lincolnshire they also owned a large country house in Merionethshire 
called "Aber la". This property was later made famous as Portmeirion
by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. 
Their eldest son was George Henry Caton Haigh (1860-1941).

1841 census  
source                   HO107; Piece 1300; Book: 2; Folio: 25; Page: 2;
place                      Halifax;  Yorkshire; Enumeration District: 5; 
dwelling                  Shaq 

William Haigh              40 Merchant                Y
Elizabeth Charlotte Haigh  35                         N
William             Haigh  13                         N
George henry        Haigh  12                         N 
Benjamin Robinson          35     MS

1851 census 
Source                        HO107; Piece: 2298; Folio: 552; Page: 34; 
place                         Halifax district 1x 
Place                        The Shag  shed 134

William Haigh head M 51  Magistrate and Landed proprietor            Halifax york
Elizabeth charlotte Haigh  wife M 45                               Grainsby lincs
Master Basau        visitor       13    Scholar                    Graisby  lincs
John Barker        ser         U  20   House serv butler           Grainsby lincs 

1861 census         
source                   
place                     




1858 May 18 The Morning Chronicle
Deaths
On the 13th instant., at Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, Elizabeth Charlotte, 
relict of the late William Haigh, Esq., of Grainsby Hall, Lincolnshire 





Gainsby Hall was originall bought by Miss Borrell circa 1804/5
 from the  ?family
following her death circa 1829 it was bought by the Haigh family.

London Gazette
1st march 1912
At the court of Buckingham Palace,
the 29th day of February 1912

Sherriffs appointed by his Majesty 
in council for the year 1912
Licolnshire
George henry caton Haigh of Grainsby, Grimsby, esq.






 
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