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'''John Mackintosh Roberts''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|NZC1869|size=85%}} (31 December 1840 &ndash; 12 October 1928) was a New Zealand soldier, resident magistrate and administrator.<br />
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John Mackintosh Roberts was born in the city of [[Bombay]], India, on 31 December 1840, the eldest child of George Roberts and Mary {{nee|Mackintosh}}. His father was an official in the Supreme Court of India, who died in 1844. This left Roberts and a sister, just an infant at the time, to be raised by his mother. An aunt soon joined the family in India but they eventually moved to Inverness in Scotland. Here Roberts attended the Royal Academy. The family, which included Robert's aunt and her husband, who she had met in India, migrated to New Zealand in late 1855, aboard the ''Carnatic''.<ref name="DNZB Roberts">{{DNZB|title=John Mackintosh Roberts|first= W. T.|last= Parham|id=1r12|accessdate=1 December 2011}}</ref><br />
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On 12 March 1872 in a ceremony at Cambridge, Roberts married Jessie {{nee|Clare}}, who was his cousin. Her father, Robert's uncle by marriage, was an officer in the New Zealand militia.<ref>{{cite news |title=Marriages |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DSC18720320.2.16 |accessdate=23 August 2018 |work=Daily Southern Cross |issue=4545 |date=20 March 1872}}</ref><br />
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After seeing considerable action across the [[North Island]] in the [[New Zealand wars]], Roberts was appointed commander of the new [[New Zealand Permanent Militia]] in February 1887. After retiring as a soldier in 1888, he was a magistrate in [[Masterton]] and [[Tauranga]] and two [[Royal Commission]]s.<ref name="DNZB Roberts"/><br />
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Roberts died on 11 October 1928 in Rotorua at the age of 88. Buried in the Tauranga cemetery, he was survived by two sons and two daughters. His wife had predeceased him several years previously.<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary: Lieut-Colonel Roberts (N.Z.C) |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BOPT19281012.2.10 |accessdate=23 August 2018 |work=Bay of Plenty Times |issue=9900 |date=12 October 1928}}</ref><br />
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