Sir Robert Needham, Knight
- Born: About 1484, Cranage, Cheshire, England
- Died: June 4th, 1556 at age 72
- Buried: Adderley, Shropshire, England
 Notes and Events:
• Note. the heir to his brother, William, was knighted on May 31st, 1533. He was Sheriff of Shropshire in 1528, 1535, and 1540, and he was Sheriff of Cheshire in 1538.
• Note. A Brass [plaque] in Adderley Church says that Robert died on June 4th, 1556, and that his wife, Agnes, daughter of John Mainwaring of Peover, died on May 2nd 1560. Below the inscription are the smaller effigies of seven sons and two daughters.
• Note. in Holmes Chapel Parish Church, Cheshire, there used to be a stained glass window, destroyed soon after 1640, which contained the following inscription:
Orate pro bono statu Roberti Nedham militis et Agneti urore ejus et pro animabus Thomæ, Johannis et Roberti filiorum et pro bono statu Matildæ et Johannæ filiarum ejusdem Roberti fieri (sic) in anno domini MCCCCxliiij
((Pray for the good estate of Robert Needham knight and of Agnes his wife and for the souls of Thomas, John and Robert his sons and for the good estate of Matilda and Joan daughters of the same Robert (who caused this window) to be made in the year of our lord 1544.))
• Will, May 24th, 1556. and probated July 30th, 1557, mentioned: his wife, Agnes: his daughter, Maud Venables, her husband, Sir Thomas Venables, and their daughter, Katheryn Venables: his son-in-law, Sir Andrew Corbett: his cousin and heir, Robert Needham, his brother, John, and his sisters, Jane Needham, Margery Needham, and Dorothy Needham: his son's daughter, Annes Needham, the daughter of Anne Hope: and his cousin, Edward Mainwaring of Whitmore. The executors were Sir Andrew Corbett and Edward Mainwaring. The Estate of Shavington remained in the family, indicating that the testator's "cousin and heir" was actually his grandson, Thomas Needham's oldest son. Also, the Will mentioned that Sir Edward Aston owed the testator twelve score marks for the marriage of Robert Needham, the testator's cousin and heir, and it was the testator's grandson, Robert Needham, who, in fact, did marry Frances Aston, Sir Edward Aston's daughter - another indication that the heir of the testator was actually his grandson.
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