Robert Huntington (12 February 1637 – 2 September 1701) was an English churchman, orientalist, and manuscript collector who served as the 14th Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1679 to 1683.
Robert was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and in 1652 was admitted portionist at Merton College, Oxford, graduating B.A.
As soon as the statutes of the college would allow, he was elected to a fellowship; he signed the decree of 1660, condemning all the proceedings of convocation under the commonwealth, and his possession of its emoluments was undisturbed.
Huntington remained in the Eastern Mediterranean for more than ten years, paying visits to Palestine, Cyprus, and Egypt, and acquiring rare manuscripts.
The bishopric of Kilmore, which was vacant through the refusal of William Sheridan to take the oaths of allegiance to the new ministry, was offered to him early in 1692 but declined, and as he preferred to live in England, he resigned his provostship of Trinity College (September 1692).
In the same autumn (19 August 1692) Huntington was instituted, on the presentation of Sir Edward Turner, to the rectory of Great Hallingbury in Essex.
Almost immediately afterward he fell ill, and he died in Dublin on 2 September 1701, when he was buried near the door of Trinity College Chapel, and a marble monument was erected by the widow to his memory.
Thomas Marshall, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Dean of Gloucester, gave to the Bodleian in 1685 many manuscripts, including some Coptic copies of the gospels procured for him by Huntington, and Archbishop Marsh on his death in 1713 left to the same library many oriental manuscripts which he had acquired from Huntington.