Robert Brown (1757–1831) was a Scottish writer on agricultural science and rural subjects.
He published with Rennie and John Shirreff a View of the Agriculture of the West Riding of Yorkshire,, 1799, and a Treatise on Rural Affairs, 2 vols.
1811, and wrote many articles in the Edinburgh Farmer's Magazine, of which he was editor for fifteen years.
He died at Drylaw, a steading close to East Linton, on 14 February 1831, in his seventy-fourth year.
A pseudonymous edition of a work relating to Scottish emigration to Canada, Remarks on the Earl of Selkirk's Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland …, is attributed to Brown.