Richard Weston (1733 – 20 October 1806) was a British botanist.
Weston was originally a thread-hosier of Leicester, but in some of his anonymous works describes himself as "a country gentleman".
His first major work "Tracts on Practical Agriculture and Gardening", which contained a catalogue of English writers on husbandry gardening and botany, was published in 1769 and dedicated to the Society of Arts.
He wrote two multi-part works with Latin names, the Botanicu Universalis and the Flora Anglicana and a number of smaller works, as well as articles in the Gentleman's Magazine.
[1] In the 1804 Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture, Weston published one of his latest articles on the "Valuable fossil as a manure", about the appearance of articles in the Annals of Agriculture on new manures based on the researches of Johann Friedrich Mayer, a German clergyman and agricultural reformer.