Sir Arthur Richard Jelf (10 September 1837 in Pankow, near Berlin – 24 July 1917 in Putney) was an English judge.

Richard William Jelf, principal of King's College, London, by his wife Countess Emmy Schlippenbach, at one time maid of honour to the queen of Hanover.

He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1860.

[1] In 1883, Jelf, Sir William Lancaster, and Baron Pollock founded the Putney School of Art and Design.

[2] From 1879 to 1901, he was recorder of Shrewsbury, and in November 1901 was raised to the bench as a justice of the High Court of Justice[3] and knighted.