Robert Croft Bourne (15 July 1888 – 7 August 1938) was a British rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics, and a Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1924 to 1938.

He was the strokeman of the New College eight which won the silver medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

[2] He was a member of the winning crew in the Stewards' Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1912, 1913 and 1914.

Bourne was elected Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford at a by-election in June 1924,[3] and served as a Deputy Speaker of the Commons from 1931.

He died in office in August 1938, aged 50, suddenly dropping dead while walking on the moors near Strontian, Argyll.