Robert Glover (pirate)

Robert Glover (died 1697/98) was an Irish-American pirate active in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean area in the late 1690s.

[1] Irishman Robert Glover had the 200-ton, 18-gun, 60-man ship Resolution[a] fitted out in Rhode Island around 1693,[2] then headed to New York to obtain a privateering commission from Governor Benjamin Fletcher.

[5] Having missed the lucrative Indian fleets at the mouth of the Red Sea, they sailed to the west coast of India and took a 12-gun Muscat ship as a prize near Rajapur.

[6] Chivers and the Resolution met up with John Hoar and went on to take a number of Moorish vessels, eventually following Glover to Madagascar to repair their ship.

Though Baldridge claimed that the native uprising drove him off of Île Sainte-Marie around July 1697, Glover's will was dated September 1697, leaving to his three sons on Jamaica and Antigua "all my silver and gold, coyned and in dust"; the will was proved in 1700.