{{short description|British Army officer and colonial administrator}} {{Multiple issues| {{no footnotes|date=December 2019}} {{one source|date=December 2019}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Sir | name = Robert Shore Milnes | honorific_suffix = Bt | image = George Romney - Sir Robert Shore Milnes.jpg | caption = Portrait by George Romney | birth_date = {{Birth-date|1754}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1837|12|2|1754|df=y}} | death_place = | spouse = Charlotte Frances Bentinck }}
'''Sir Robert Shore Milnes, 1st Baronet''' (1754 – 2 December 1837) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada from 1799 to 1805. Milnes served in the Royal Horse Guards and retired as Captain in 1788.
He married Charlotte Frances Bentinck, daughter of Captain John Bentinck and Renira van Tuyll van Serooskerken, on 12 November 1785. Milnes died at Tunbridge Wells, England.
==References== * {{cite DCB |first=Jean-Pierre |last=Wallot |title=Milnes, Sir Robert Shore |volume=7 |url=https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/milnes_robert_shore_7E.html}}
== External links == * Archives of Sir Robert Shore Milnes [https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=98647&lang=eng (Robert Shore Milnes collection, R2453)] are held at Library and Archives Canada
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