Robert Chaloner, FRS (23 September 1776 – 7 October 1842) was an English Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of York.
Born the son of William Chaloner of Guisborough, Yorkshire he was educated at Harrow School.
[2] He was bankrupted in the financial crisis of 1825–6, and his Yorkshire property was only saved by the help of his wife's cousin, the Earl of Fitzwilliam, who also appointed Chaloner as land agent of his 85,000-acre Coolattin estate in Ireland.
On the Irish estates Chaloner a prime mover in land clearances and the forced emigration of ‘surplus’ peasant families.
He was awarded compensation under The Slave Compensation Act 1837 with Abel Rous Dottin, John Pollard Mayers and Henry Walker Yeoman as trustees of the marriage settlement of his sister Caroline Cumberbatch for the Cleland and Farm estates in Barbados.