Robert Long (soldier)

Robert Long (soldier)

Sir Robert Long (c. 1517 - c. 1581) was born in Wiltshire, eldest surviving son and heir of Sir Henry Long of Draycot, and his wife Eleanor Wrottesley.

Long was Esquire to the Body of Henry VIII. He is recorded as being present at the reception of Anne of Cleves, and together with his father, he served at the Siege of Boulogne. He was given the manor of Calstone near Calne in 1538 in a grant by Henry VIII, and at least part of this land was still controlled by the Long family in 1704, when the rent from one farm called Tossells was used for a Draycot charity.

He was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1575, during the reign of Elizabeth I.

He married Barbara Carne c. 1546 and they had one daughter and four sons including:

• Sir Walter Long
• Jewel Long (d.1647), whose godfather was the Bishop of Salisbury John Jewel
• Henry Long, murdered 1594

Sir Robert Long died at Draycot in 1581 and his wife died at Bulford in 1605.