Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent

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The Right Honourable The Earl Nugent PC
Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough
First Lord of Trade
In office 19 January 1767 – 20 January 1768
Monarch	George III
Prime Minister	The Earl of Chatham
Preceded by	The Earl of Hillsborough
Succeeded by	The Earl of Hillsborough

Robert Craggs-Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent PC (1709 – 13 October 1788) was an Anglo-Irish politician, poet and peer. He was tersely described by Richard Glover as a jovial and voluptuous Irishman who had left popery for the Protestant religion, money and widows.