Robert Jenkins (Australian politician)

Robert Pitt Jenkins was an Australian politician.
He was born in New South Wales to merchant Robert Jenkins and Jemima Pitt. He was a pastoralist who owned land at Bombala, [New South Wales|Bombala] and on the Murrumbidgee River. On 10 November 1843 he married Louisa Adelaide Plunkett. He was a member of the New [South Wales Legislative Council] from 1856 until 1859, when he died at sea near Wales.
For a period he lived in New Zealand. He was elected an Alderman in the 1842 [Wellington City mayoral election|first council election] ever held in Wellington in 1842.