Robert Jeremy Adam Inch Catto (27 July 1939 – 17 August 2018) was a British historian who was a Rhodes fellow and tutor in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford between 1970 and 2006.
In a piece in The Spectator to commemorate his retirement in June 2006, Alan Duncan MP described him as "the quintessential Oxford don ... if one were to devour C. P. Snow, Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Porterhouse Blue, there is a smattering of Catto in each.
His father was a businessman who operated a rubber plantation in British Malaya and his mother was a teacher; his uncle Thomas Catto was Governor of the Bank of England between 1944 and 1949.
[3] Catto was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne before winning a Brackenbury Scholarship to study History at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with first-class honours.
Within the Faculty of History he served as director of graduate studies, and he was also a senior librarian of the Oxford Union for 30 years.