Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish poet and politician (born 1702)

Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent

Anglo-Irish politician and poet (1709–1788)

Robert Craggs-Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, PC was an Anglo-Irish politician and poet. He was tersely described by Richard Glover as a jovial and voluptuous Irishman who had left "Popery" for the Protestant religion, money and widows.