Lieutenant William Livingstone Robe (1791 – 19 June 1815) was a British Army officer of the Royal Horse Artillery who was noted for his distinguished conduct in battles of the Peninsular War.

[1][2] Robe took part in Sir John Moore's retreat to Coruña, was engaged at the actions of Pombal, Sabugal, Fuentes d'Onore, El Boden, Badajos, Tarifa, Salamanca and the preceding attacks, Madrid, Burgos, Nivelle, Nive, Adour, and Bayonne.

He was in no fewer than thirty-three actions as a subaltern, and was mentioned by Wellington for his distinguished conduct at Nivelle and Nive, where he commanded a mountain battery of artillery carried on mules.

[1] Robe was one of the four officers of William Norman Ramsay's Troop of Horse Artillery struck down near La Haye Sainte, at the Battle of Waterloo, and died from the effects of his wounds on the following day, 19 June 1815.

[1] An howitzer (one of 3), Portuguese in origin, taken by the French in the Peninsular, were carried off by Lt. Robe at Nive (1813), was engraved by his fellow officers and presented to his father by the MGO, Lord Musgrave, and now resides in a private collection in England.