Admiral Robert Coote CB (1 June 1820 – 17 March 1898) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, China Station.

[1] Educated at Eton College,[2] Coote joined the Royal Navy in 1833[3] and served on the coast of Syria in 1840.

[2] He was made commander of the sloop HMS Volcano in 1851 while serving in the West Africa Squadron.

[2] There is a memorial to him in St Catherine's Church in Tullamore in County Offaly.

They had one son, Stanley Victor Coote, High Sheriff of Roscommon in 1900, and a daughter, Caroline Maud Coote, who married Major-General Cecil William Park.