Catesby, ROBERT, born in 1573, was a Northamptonshire Catholic of good fortune and lineage, being sixth in descent from Richard III.'s Catesby, who was hanged three days after Bosworth. Robert, however, had suffered much as a recusant both by fines and imprisonment, when in 1604 he engaged in the Gunpowder Plot (q.v.). He was shot dead in the defence of Holbeach House, 8th November 1605.
Catesby, ROBERT
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 8
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