Robert George West was the son of Robert West and Mary Hemsley Greenhough.

Robert was born on Monday 9 April 1866 in Kensington, London.

Robert married Elizabeth Ellen Mann in 1895 in Fulham, London.

He had the following children from his marriage to Elizabeth Ellen Mann:

- Mary West

born on 15 August 1898 at Fulham, London.

Robert was a Bricklayer.

Details of Robert's death are not known.