Robert James Creighton

Robert James Creighton (1835 – 22 May 1893) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in the Auckland Region, New Zealand.

[1] He was an apprentice compositor with the Londonderry Sentinel, before becoming a reporter and then member of the editorial staff of that newspaper.

In the early 1860s he emigrated to New Zealand, and in 1862 became the co-owner of The Southern Cross newspaper in Auckland.

Following that newspaper's purchase by Julius Vogel in 1868, Creighton established the short-lived Free Press.

[2] He was briefly a resident of Hawaii, where he was editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser in 1886, and also Minister of Foreign Affairs to King Kalākaua.