Sir Robert Laurie, 5th Baronet

Sir Robert Laurie, 5th Baronet (c. 1738 – 1804) was a Scottish soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1804.

Also in 1779 he became lieutenant-colonel in the 16th Light Dragoons and joint surveyor general of window and house tax in Scotland.

In 1785 he was appointed Knight Marischal of Scotland but lost his position as surveyor general of window and house tax in 1789.

[1] Laurie was extremely irregular in his attendance in Parliament, but retained his seat until his death on 10 September 1804.

Having divorced his first wife in 1774, he had married secondly Judith Wollaston, daughter of Captain Hatley and widow of Robert Wollaston of Ipswich, Suffolk on 25 April 1778.