Robert Torrens O'Neill
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Hon. Robert Torrens O'Neill (10 January 1845-25 July 1910) DL was a Northern Ireland Unionist politician. He was the third son of William O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill and his first wife, Henrietta, daughter of Hon. Robert Torrens, a Judge of the Common Pleas in Ireland. Robert was educated at Harrow School and at Brasenose College, Oxford and served as a Major in the 4th Batallion Inniskilling Fusiliers, he was elected as Conservative, and later Irish Unionist Member of Parliament for Antrim Mid in 1885, having unsuccessfully contested the Antrim constituency earlier in the year.
He was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Antrim, and Deputy Lieutenant for County Londonderry, and was High Sheriff in 1871.
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