Augustus Joseph Tancred (30 August 1804 – 4 January 1867) was a founding member of the Cape Legislative Assembly.
Born in Cork, Ireland, as Augustin Joseph Tancred, he did his doctorate in divinities (DD) and preached at several locations around the United Kingdom as a curate.
He married Ms Mary Theresa Evelina Lattey, and they immigrated to the Cape Colony with their three sons in 1842.
On 22 December 1853 in Clanwilliam he remarried, to Ms Geesje/Geesie Martha Maria van Zyl.
On several occasions he was forcefully removed from the building for disruptive behaviour or drunkenness, and was also the cause of the Sergeant-at-Arms being called.