Robert Preston, sixth baronet

(1740-1834)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Preston Sir Robert (1740-1834) 6th Baronet LBT ID: RoPrest1834	B/BAP: 1740-04-21 DIED: 1834-05-07
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (September 1834) 315-16; leighrayment.com
Of Valleyfield in Perth, son of the fourth baronet; he made a fortune as a captain in the East India Company, was a director of Greenwich Hospital, and was MP for Dover (1784-90) and Cirencester, (1792-1806).
REFERENCES TO Robert Preston, sixth baronet: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VI 1830 Found 1: ¶ 7