Ernest Stewart Roberts (11 April 1847 – 16 June 1912) was born in Swineshead, Lincolnshire; a classicist and academic administrator.

[2] He was admitted to Caius in 1865, elected Fellow in 1870 then Senior Tutor.

[2] He was also ordained deacon in 1877 and priest in 1879; Roberts was a college lecturer in classics, a Cambridge University lecturer in comparative philology and one of the significant influences on the study of epigraphy.

He became more conservative and more reserved about political subjects as he grew older, and some of his earlier opinions were changed".

The following books were written or edited by Ernest Stewart Roberts.