Sir Robert Appleby Bartram, JP (23 March 1835 – 8 August 1925) was a British shipbuilder.
[1] On 7 February 1889, he laid the foundation stone of St George's Presbyterian Church in Ashbrooke, Sunderland.
[2] In the late 19th century, Bartram gave £10,500 (approximately £800,000 in 2007) to Sunderland Town Council for the establishment of technical scholarships.
A generous benefactor to charitable, religious and educational bodies in Sunderland" and knighted at Buckingham Palace by George V on 8 July 1922.
[5][6] Bartram died in Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire, in 1925 and was buried in Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Sunderland, on 11 August 1925.