Biography:
ROBERT NEEDHAM (-1657), 3rd Viscount was a royalist in the Civil War, who was forced to spend £2,300 down and an annual fine of £120 in order to obtain the restitution of his estates. He married Frances, second daughter of Gilbert, Lord Gerard, by Eleanor Dutton but died in 1657 without issue. He was buried at Adderley, Shropshire. when the title devolved to his half-brother, Charles Needham