Robert Jocelyn, 1st Earl of Roden (baptised 31 July 1731 – 21 June 1797) was an Irish peer and politician.

He was the only son of Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn and Baron Newport

Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn

Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn PC SL was an English-Irish politician and member of the Peerage of Ireland. He is best known for serving as Lord Chancellor of Ireland.-Early life:...

 by his first wife Charlotte Anderson. He was M.P for Old Leighlin

Old Leighlin (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Old Leighlin was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.Following the Act of Union 1800 the borough was disfranchised.-Boundaries and Boundary Changes:...

 1743-56 and Auditor-General of the Exchequer from 1750 until his death. He succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father 3 December 1756, and created Earl of Roden of High Roding in co. Tipperary

Earl of Roden

Earl of Roden is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1771 for Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Viscount Jocelyn. This branch of the Jocelyn family descends from the 1st Viscount, prominent Irish lawyer and politician Robert Jocelyn, the son of Thomas Jocelyn, third son of Sir Robert Jocelyn,...

 on 1 December 1771. On the death of his cousin, Sir Conyers Jocelyn, 4th Bt, of Hyde Hall, co. Hertford, he succeeded to the baronetcy.

On 11 December 1752 he married Anne Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassill and his wife Henrietta Bentinck, daughter of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, Baron Bentinck of Diepenheim and Schoonheten, KG, PC was a Dutch and English nobleman who became in an early stage the favourite of William, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder in the Netherlands, and future King of England. He was steady, sensible, modest...

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He died in York Street, Dublin.