Sir Robert Cunliffe, 5th Baronet

Sir Robert Alfred Cunliffe, 5th Baronet (17 January 1839 – 18 June 1905) was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1872 and 1885.

He retired from the regular army in 1862 and became Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the Royal Denbigh Rifles Militia on 22 May 1872.

He secondly married in St Barnabas’ Church, Pimlico on 5 January 1901 Honourable Cecile Victoria Sackville-West,[7] daughter of Hon.

William Edward Sackville-West (1830–1905; a younger son of the 5th Earl De La Warr) by his wife Georgina Dodwell (d.1883).

With his first wife he had a son Foster Cunliffe who was a cricketer and historian and died fighting in World War I and a daughter Mary (born circa 1879).