Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote GCVO KCB JP[1] (28 February 1830 – 22 September 1908) was a British soldier, Liberal politician, courtier and agriculturalist.

[2] He was Aide-de-Camp to his great-uncle, Lord Raglan, during the Crimean War, and later achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Scots Fusiliers.

[11] Kingscote was a Groom-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria between 1859 and 1866, when he resigned,[12] and as an Extra Equerry to the Prince of Wales in 1867.

After the accession of King Edward VII, he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in the 1902 Birthday Honours,[17] and was invested with the insignia by the King at Buckingham Palace on 18 December 1902.

[citation needed] Kingscote married secondly Lady Emily Marie Curzon, daughter of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, in 1856.