Robert Dimsdale (1 July 1828 – 2 May 1898) was an English banker and Conservative politician[1] who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1866 and 1892.
He was educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Dimsdale was a J.P. and a Deputy Lieutenant for Hertfordshire and a J.P. for Middlesex and Westminster.
[2] In 1872 he became the sixth Baron Dimsdale of the Russian Empire on the death of his father, Charles John.
The barony had been conferred by Catherine the Great on an ancestor, Thomas Dimsdale (1712-1800), who had inoculated the Empress and her son against smallpox in 1769.