Sir Robert Vaughan Gower KCVO OBE FRGS (10 November 1880 – 6 March 1953) was a British solicitor and Conservative Party[1] politician from Kent.

[2] His younger daughter, Pauline Gower, headed the female branch of the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War.

Mayor of Tunbridge Wells in 1918–1919, it was announced in the 1919 Birthday Honours that he was to be knighted for support he had given to a scheme for preserving businesses in the absence of those serving in World War I,[4][5][6] The title was conferred in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 18 August 1919.

[11] He was also a founding member and president of the Pit Ponies Protection Society, and was chairman and honorary treasurer of the National Canine Defence League.

[12] Gower died on 6 March 1953 and was buried in the family tomb with his wife Dorothy and daughter Pauline who predeceased him.