Robert Douglas (New Zealand politician)

Sir Robert Andrews Mackenzie Douglas, 3rd Baronet (19 July 1837 – 28 February 1884) was a Member of Parliament for Marsden in Northland, New Zealand.

The 57th were afterwards dispatched to New Zealand, and Sir Robert was present at various skirmishes, and at Nukumaru, receiving the honour of mention in general orders.

For ten years he commanded a company of the old 'Die Hards', and the retired by sale of commission, and settled in Whangārei.

[1] On 31 March 1866, he married Eleanor Louisa Smith, the daughter of Thomas Huntley Liffiton.

[1][2] She had previously married Frederick Smith, a soldier serving with the 65th Regiment of Foot, at Wanganui in 1859, but was widowed in 1861.