Robert Alfred Tarlton (21 April 1828 – 29 November 1918) was a businessman and politician in the early days of the colony South Australia.
[3] The bank's liquidators subsequently sued him and fellow Directors James Crabb Verco, Alfred Tennant, Charles Rischbieth and Maurice Salom for £320,000 damages, claiming negligence.
Tarlton was a devout Congregationalist, and one of the first deacons of the North Adelaide Congregational Church, whose pastor, the Rev.
Tarlton married Caroline Walters ( – 20 March 1865) on 22 June 1854 and emigrated to South Australia in 1858.
He married again, to Caroline's niece, Sophia Walters (died 21 March 1913) on 11 April 1866 and lived at Somerton.