Constituency : Westminster 1865-74
Robert was one of two new representatives for Westminster replacing George de Lacey Evans and John Shelley. He was the candidate of the "Whiggish Rump" ; the Radicals thought him unfit to represent the "blue riband" constituency of Liberalism.The Morning Star described him as "personally unknown to even the smallest section of the political world , and apparently not quite clear in his own mind as to the political opinions which it would be his duty to express".
Robert was a nephew of the Duke of Westminster and the son of Baron Ebury. He was educated at Harrow and King's College, London. He entered the army in 1853 and rose to the rank of captain.
Unlike his uncle Hugh, Robert did support extension of the franchise.
Robert became Baron Ebury in 1893.
He died in 1918 aged 84.
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