Sir Robert Cann, 1st Baronet


Sir Robert Cann, 1st Baronet, of Small Street, Bristol and Stoke Bishop, Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire, was an English politician and slave trader. He was Mayor of Bristol in 1662, a member of the Society of Merchant Venturers, and enlarged the building at Stoke Bishop. Cann campaigned for a law against kidnapping of white children for plantation work, but was himself fined in 1685 for taking criminals from Bristol to work on Bristol-owned Caribbean plantations.
He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Bristol in 11 February 1678, March 1679, and October 1679 – 28 October 1680.