Daniel Dumaresq FRS (1712 – 28 October 1805) was an educational consultant to Russian and Polish monarchs.

His father was Jurat Elie Dumaresq, Seigneur of Augrès and was the fifth of eleven children.

[1][2] He became curate at Merton on Otmoor, Oxfordshire, (1744) then chaplain at the English Factory at St Petersburg (1746–62).

During that time he was elected to the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, became fluent in Russian and was chaplain to Sir Charles Hanbury (1708–59), British Ambassador to St Petersburg.

In his capacity as chaplain to the ambassador he employed a secretary, Stanislaus Poniatowski, who later became king of Poland.