Robert Hamilton Anstruther

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Admiral Robert Hamilton Anstruther (10 June 1862 - 26 September 1938) is the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Robert Anstruther of Balcaskie, 5th Bt. and Louisa Maria Chowne Marshall. He married Edith Flora Peel on 6 January 1890. They gave brith to their son Colonel Philip Noel Anstruther in 2 September 1891.

He was Senior Naval Officer of the Danube between 1900 and 1902. He was Senior Naval Officer of the North Sea Fisheries between 1902 and 1904. He was Senior Naval Officer of the Newfoundland Fisheries between 1906 and 1908. He was invested as a Companion, Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) in 1907. He was Commander of the Hong Kong in 1912. He was Senior Officer of the coast of China between 1914 and 1916.

He was the second Colony Commissioner of the Boy Scout Association, Hong Kong Branch in 1915.