Robert Torrens (British Army officer)

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Robert Henry Thomas Torrens (1780–May 1840) was a British Army officer. He served with distinction in the Napoleonic Wars, fighting under the Duke of Wellington in the Second Anglo-Maratha War, the Peninsular War, and the Waterloo campaign. For his bravery at Waterloo he received the Companion of the Bath (CB) and the Second Class of the Order of St. Anna. He also served as Commissioner for the British Army at the Convention of Saint-Cloud in July 1815, and he wrote a detailed account of the Waterloo campaign in a letter to his uncle.

Later in his career, Torrens served with the Queen’s Foot in Madras and held the post of Adjutant-General in the East Indies. He died in May 1840 at the age of 59.