Robert Jenkins (Australian politician)

Robert Pitt Jenkins (26 January 1814 – 26 October 1859) was an Australian politician.

He was born in New South Wales to merchant Robert Jenkins and Jemima Pitt. He was a pastoralist who owned land at Bombala and on the Murrumbidgee River. On 10 November 1843 he married Louisa Adelaide Plunkett. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1856 until 1859, when he died at sea near Wales.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Parliament of New South Wales (2008). "Mr Robert Pitt Jenkins (1814-1859)". Former Members. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2015.


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