Robert Arthur Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford, TD, PC, JP, DL (20 June 1867 – 24 February 1940) was an English barrister and politician.

He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with first class honours in law.

[2] He was Treasurer of the Household (Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Commons), 1918–1919, and a junior Lord of the Treasury from 1919 until 1921.

He sat for Wells from 1924 to 1929, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Bayford, of Stoke Trister in the County of Somerset.

As his only son committed suicide in 1920, the title became extinct on Bayford's death in February 1940, aged 72.