Robert Laurie
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Robert Laurie may refer to:
- Robert Laurie (bishop)Robert Laurie (bishop)Robert Laurie , the son of Joseph Laurie, was a seventeenth-century Church of Scotland prelate. He was minister of Stirling before becoming, after the Restoration and the reinstitution of episcopal order in Scotland, Dean of Edinburgh....
(died 1677), Scottish prelate, Bishop of Brechin - Robert Laurie (rugby league)Robert Laurie (rugby league)Robert "Rocky" Laurie is an Australian former rugby league footballer. He played for the Eastern Suburbs Roosters and the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership....
, Australian sportsman - Robert Peter LaurieRobert Peter LaurieRobert Peter Laurie was a British Conservative Party politician.-Parliamentary career:Laurie was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament for the parliamentary borough of Canterbury at a by-election in May 1879, following the resignation from the House of Commons of the Conservative MP...
(1835–1905), Member of Parliament for Canterbury (1879–1880) and Bath (1886–1892) - Sir Robert Laurie, 4th Baronet (after 1708–1779), Member of Parliament for Dumfries BurghsDumfries Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)Dumfries Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1918...
- Sir Robert Laurie, 5th Baronet (c. 1738–1804), Member of Parliament for DumfriesshireDumfriesshire (UK Parliament constituency)Dumfriesshire was a county constituency represented in the of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 2005. It was known as Dumfries from 1950...
- Sir Robert Laurie, 6th BaronetSir Robert Laurie, 6th BaronetSir Robert Laurie, 6th Baronet KCB was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He rose through the ranks after his entry, fighting as a lieutenant under Howe at the Glorious First of June, and being wounded in the action...
(1764–1848), admiral in the Royal Navy - Robert Laurie (Australian politician), member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1901–1902