Sir Robert Milnes, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Milnes, Bt, by Joseph Wright of Derby.

Sir Robert Shore Milnes, 1st Baronet (1754 – 2 December 1837) was Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada from 1799 to 1805.

He married Charlotte Frances Bentinck, daughter of Captain John Bentinck and Renira van Tuyll van Serooskerken, on 12 November 1785. Milnes died at Tunbridge Wells, England, and was survived by his three sons and two daughters.

References

Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

Government offices
Preceded by Robert Prescott	Governor-General of The Canadas 1799–1805	Succeeded by Thomas Dunn
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Gauley) 1801–1837	Succeeded by John Bentinck Milnes

Lieutenant-Governors of Quebec

Post-Confederation (1867–present)	Belleau Caron Saint-Just Robitaille Masson Angers Chapleau Jetté Pelletier Langelier Leblanc Fitzpatrick Brodeur Pérodeau Gouin Carroll Patenaude Fiset Fauteux Gagnon Comtois Lapointe Côté Lamontagne Asselin Roux Thibault Duchesne

Province of Canada (1841–1866)*	Clitherow Jackson Bagot Fernhill Cathcart Elgin Head Monck

Lower Canada (1791–1841)	Carleton (con't from 1791) Prescott Milnes Dunn Craig Prévost Drummond Wilson Sherbrooke Richmond Dalhousie Aylmer Gosford Colborne Durham Sydenham

British Province of Quebec (1759–1791)*	Amherst Murray Carleton Haldimand Carleton (2nd Time)

The Crown's representative from 1759 to 1791, and from 1841 to 1866 held the office and rank of Governor-General