Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert, GCB (12 June 1831 – 6 May 1905), was the first Premier of Queensland, Australia.

[4][5] When Queensland was formed into a separate colony, Sir George Bowen was appointed the first governor.

On the day of the governor's arrival, Herbert was gazetted as colonial secretary, with Ratcliffe Pring as attorney-general.

[4] During his time as Premier, four land acts were passed, and the education question was also the subject of early measures.

Certainly, the first Queensland government was in marked contrast to those of the other colonies, each of which averaged half a dozen ministries in the same period.

In 1899/1900 he briefly took on the role as Acting Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies because of illness to Sir Edward Wingfield.

In 1893–6, he was agent-general for Tasmania, and did active work in connection with the formation of the British Empire League.

[5] Robert Herbert met his companion, John Bramston, at Balliol College Oxford University, England in the early 1850s.

[1] When Herbert was Premier of Queensland, and Bramston his Attorney-General, the two created a farm on what is now the site of the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.

The southernmost of Queensland's wet tropics river systems, it was named in 1864 by the explorer George Elphinstone Dalrymple after Robert Herbert.