Richard Hawksworth Barnes FLS (1831–1904) was a British meteorologist and naturalist, who spent time working as a coffee grower in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where he collected specimens for the British Museum.

[1][2] He spent many of his early years at the Fawkes' family seat, Farnley Hall, near Otley, Yorkshire.

[5] The Times noted:[6] In 1865 be was able to warn the Madras observatory by telegram that a severe cyclone would reach their coasts in three days, by which means all vessels there were enabled to reach safe waters, and many lives were saved.He collected specimens for the British Museum (these are now in the Natural History Museum, London).

[3] Barnes died at his home, Heatherland House, in Parkstone, on 27 February 1904, aged 73.

Obituaries were published in The Times,[6] Tropical Agriculturist,[1] the Parkstone Reminder,[3] and a number of other regional newspapers.