Admiral Robert Digby (20 December 1732 – 25 February 1815) was a Royal Navy officer who also served briefly as a Member of Parliament (MP).

[2] He entered the navy aged twelve or thirteen, and became Captain of HMS Solebay (1742) at the age of 23 in 1755, and was present at the 1757 Raid on Rochefort the 1758 Raid on St Malo, and Capture of Gorée, and at the Battle of Quiberon Bay 1759 November 20 as Captain of HMS Dunkirk (1754).

Rising to Second-in-Command of the Channel Fleet in 1779,[2] he was made Rear-Admiral of the Blue, and transferred to HMS Prince George, in which he was present at the attack on the Caracas Convoy and the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in January 1780.

[2] After the surrender of New York City in 1783, Digby helped to organise the evacuation of some 1,500 United Empire Loyalists to the small port of Conway in Nova Scotia.

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