Robert Aglionby Slaney (9 June 1791 – 19 May 1862)[2] was a British barrister and Whig politician from Shropshire.

[13] Slaney was returned again at the 1857 general election,[14] re-elected in 1859,[15] and held the seat until his death, aged 70.

[17] He served as commissioner "on the health of towns" from 1843 to 1848, and was particularly noted for his efforts to improve living conditions in urban industrial areas.

[19] The eldest, Elizabeth Frances (died c. 1870), married the naturalist Thomas Campbell Eyton, a Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire.

This archive collection also includes correspondence of his son-in-law, Thomas Campbell Eyton, and other family members.