# Robert Steuart
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{{Short description|British politician and diplomat (1806–1843)}}
{{about||the Scottish politician|Sir Robert Steuart, 1st Baronet}}
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|name = Robert Steuart
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|office = [Lords Commissioner of the Treasury](/source/Lords_Commissioners_of_the_Treasury)
|prime_minister = [Lord Melbourne](/source/Lord_Melbourne)
|term_start = 1835
|term_end = 1841
|office2 = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom))
for [Haddington Burghs](/source/Haddington_Burghs)
|term_start2 = 18 December 1832
|term_end2 = 3 July 1841
|predecessor2 = [Adolphus Dalrymple](/source/Adolphus_Dalrymple)
|successor2 = [James Maitland Balfour](/source/James_Maitland_Balfour)
|term_start3 = 23 May 1831
|term_end3 = 10 August 1831
|predecessor3 = [Adolphus Dalrymple](/source/Adolphus_Dalrymple)
|successor3 = [Adolphus Dalrymple](/source/Adolphus_Dalrymple)
|birth_date = 1806
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|death_place = [Republic of New Granada](/source/Republic_of_New_Granada)
|death_cause = [Fever](/source/Fever)
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thumb|The House of Commons, 1833 by Sir George Hayter.jpg
'''Robert Steuart''' (1806 – 15 July 1843)[{{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "H" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons1.htm|website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=16 August 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617155040/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons1.htm|archivedate=17 June 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=11 June 2018 }}] was a [British](/source/Great_Britain) [Whig](/source/Whigs_(British_political_party)) politician.[{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Henry Stooks|title=The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections|date=1842|publisher=Simpkin, Marshall & Company|page=203|edition=Second|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQgHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA203|accessdate=2 September 2018}}]
Born in 1806, and baptised on 9 July of the same year, Steuart was the first son of Robert Steuart of Alderston and Louisa Clementina. He was educated at [Brasenose College, Oxford](/source/Brasenose_College%2C_Oxford), from 1824 and, in 1827, married Maria, daughter of Samuel Dalrymple of Nunraw and North Berwick. They had three children—one son and two daughters, including Robert Dalrymple Steuart (1836–1864).[{{cite web |last1=Escott |first1=Margaret |title=STEUART, Robert (1806–1843), of Alderston, Haddington and 10 Upper Belgrave Street, Mdx. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/steuart-robert-1806-1843 |website=History of Parliament |accessdate=16 August 2019 |editor-last = Fisher |editor-first = D. R. |date=2009}}]
Before his parliamentary career, Steuart became a commissioner of supply for Haddingtonshire, rallying support for local reformers and the [Grey ministry](/source/Whig_government%2C_1830%E2%80%931834) at mass meetings in the winter of 1830/31. He canvassed the councils of [Jedburgh](/source/Jedburgh) and [Haddington](/source/Haddington%2C_East_Lothian), and declared that he would stand for election at [Haddington Burghs](/source/Haddington_Burghs) at the [1831 general election](/source/1831_United_Kingdom_general_election), during which there were riotous protest and the kidnapping of the [Lauder](/source/Lauder) [baillie](/source/baillie). An election petition was lodged and was ultimately successful with no contest from Steuart, leading to the return of the [Tory](/source/Tories_(British_political_party)), [Adolphus Dalrymple](/source/Adolphus_Dalrymple). During this short tenure in parliament, Steuart voted for the second reading of the reintroduced English reform bill.[{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|page=549}}]
Shortly after, he accepted a position as chargé d'affaires and consul general to the Republic of New Granada, where he died of a fever in 1843.