Sir Robert Milnes, 1st Baronet

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Captain Sir Robert Shore Milnes Bt
Sir Robert Milnes, Bt, by Joseph Wright of Derby.
Personal details
Born	1754 (1754)
Died	2 December 1837(1837-12-02) (aged 82–83)
Spouse	Charlotte Frances Bentinck

Sir Robert Shore Milnes, 1st Baronet (1754 – 2 December 1837) was Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada from 1799 to 1805. Milnes served in the Royal Horse Guards and retired as Captain in 1788.

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.

References

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Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

External links

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Archives of Sir Robert Shore Milnes (Robert Shore Milnes collection, R2453) are held at Library and Archives Canada

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

v t e 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 Doyon Jeannotte
Province of Canada (1841–66)*	Clitherow Jackson Bagot Fernhill Cathcart Elgin Head Monck
Lower Canada (1791–1841)	Carleton (cont'd from 1791) Prescott Milnes Dunn Craig Prévost Drummond Wilson Sherbrooke Richmond Dalhousie Aylmer Gosford Colborne Durham Sydenham
British Province of Quebec (1759–91)*	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

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