General Sir Robert Houstoun KCB (2 December 1780 – 5 April 1862) was a British military officer in the service of the East India Company.
[1] He was commissioned as a cornet in the 2nd Light Cavalry of the Bengal Army in 1795, and in 1800 at just the age of twenty was made adjutant of the 6th Regiment.
Following this he returned to England on ill health and was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1817, one of the first officers in the Indian Army.
[5] Houston was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1838 and became a General in the East India Company's service in 1854.
[6][7] His daughter Rachel Houston married Charles Murray Barstow, President of the Society of Accountants in Edinburgh.