High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Ethelbert Beattie (died May 5, 1925) was a Canadian politician and pharmacist. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Member of the Liberal Party in the 1921 election to represent the riding of Kootenay East and on February 9, 1922, he accepted an office of emolument under the Crown. He was defeated in the 1917 election as a Laurier Liberal.