abstract:Sir Robert Harley FRS (6 April 1626 – 6 November 1673) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1647 to 1648 and in 1660.
The Bandbox Plot of November 4th 1712, foiled by JonathanSwift (authorof "Gulliver's Travels"), was an attempt to kill RobertHarley, Earl of Oxford and Lord Treasurer.