Robert Ferguson (1 April 1817 – 1 September 1898) was an English mill-owner from Cumberland, antiquarian and Liberal politician, who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1886.

Ferguson was the son of Joseph Ferguson of Ferguson Brothers cotton manufacturers and his wife Maria Isabella Clarke daughter of John Clarke of Bebside House Northumberland.,[1] His father's company owned the Holme Head Works textile mills in Denton Holme.

[1] Ferguson was elected MP for Carlisle in February 1874.

[3] Ferguson was also an antiquarian and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

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