John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor

The Right Honourable The Earl of Radnor PC
Portrait by Godfrey Kneller
Lord President of the Council
In office 24 October 1679 – 24 August 1684
Monarch	Charles II
Preceded by	The Earl of Shaftesbury
Succeeded by	The Earl of Rochester

John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor PC (1606 – 17 July 1685) was an English politician, peer and military officer who fought for the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War. He retired from public life before the trial and execution of Charles I (1649) and did not take an active part in politics until after the Restoration in 1660. During the reign of Charles II he opposed the Cavalier party (because he wished for more tolerance of non-Anglican religious sects). Toward the end of his life he opposed the more extreme Protestant groups, led by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, who refused to accept the succession of James because he was a self-declared Catholic.^[1]