Constituency : Dublin 1880-85
Robert recaptured one of the Dublin seats from the Tories, the Home Rule League holding the other. He described himself as an "Independent Liberal".
Robert was the son of a Cork merchant. He was educated at a grammar school in Cork and Trinity College where he studied medicine. In 1849 he became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons and in 1855 started working for the army. He was in the Crimea studying conditions there, In 1857 he went to Portugal to study an outbreak of yellow fever there and received an honour from King Pedro V. He returned to Dublin and held a variety of prestigious medical posts. In 1870 he accepted a commission from Gladstone to report on the conditions of Fenian prisoners.
Robert spoke against Charles Bradlaugh being allowed to take his seat- "Let Northampton send to us a God-fearing if not a God-loving man".
Robert supported the afforestation of Ireland.
He died in 1886 aged 60.
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