Robert Bromfield was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Southwark

Southwark (UK Parliament constituency)

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, London in 1621 and 1624.

Bromfield had leased a Southwark wharf since 1601. He appears, described as a woodmonger, in the diary of Philip Henslowe

Philip Henslowe

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, and was one of the overseers of Henslowe's will in 1616. In 1625 Bromfield and Thomas Overman bought Montague House and Montague Close, including various wharves and buildings around Southwark Priory, from Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu

Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu

Anthony-Maria Browne was an English peer during the Tudor and Stuart period.He was born in 1574, and become the Second Viscount Montagu on the death of his grandfather in 1592. He married Jane Sackville, the daughter of Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, in 1591...

; Bromfield redeveloped the site to make the buildings "suitable for men of better ability". From 1629, he owned Merton Grange, which he bought for £2,100.

A relative, Edward Bromfield, was Lord Mayor of London

Lord Mayor of London

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in 1636.