Robert Kingscote

Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote GCVO KCB JP (28 February 1830 – 22 September 1908), was a British soldier, Liberal politician, courtier and agriculturalist.

Kingscote was the son of Colonel Thomas Henry Kingscote, of Kingscote Park (Gloucestershire), by his first wife Lady Isabella Anne Frances, daughter of Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort. His mother died when he was less than one year old, shortly after the birth of her second child, a daughter. His brother, Thomas Kingscote, also joined the Royal Household.

Kingscote was commissioned in to the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1846. He was Aide-de-Camp to his great-uncle, Lord Raglan, during the Crimean War, and later achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He was also an honorary colonel in the 4th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment.

Kingscote was Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire West between 1852 and 1885. He was appointed Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire in 1856. The latter year he was appointed a Commissioner of Woods and Forests, a post he held until 1895. He was also a Justice of the Peace for Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.

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