A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Auchmuty, Robert
AUCHMUTY, ROBERT.
Colonial Judge.
d. 1750.
Admitted 5 April, 1705.
Third son of John Auchmuty, of Newtown, co. Longford, Ireland. He was educated in Dublin, but after his call to the Bar on 23 Nov. 1711, settled in Boston (U.S.A.). There he became, in 1733, a Judge in the Admiralty Court of the district, and held the post until 1747. In 1741 he was deputed to proceed to England to settle the dispute respecting the boundary line of Massachussetts and Rhode Island, and while there he conceived the plan for adding Cape Breton and Louisburg to the Colonies. He died April, 1750.
Judge Auchmuty was the grandfather of Sir Samuel Auchmuty, the distinguished Indian General. He was the author of a pamphlet entitled. The Importance of Cape Breton to the British Nation (1745).