Robert MacFarlane, Lord Ormidale FRSE (30 July 1802 – 3 November 1880) was a Scottish lawyer and a Senator of the College of Justice.
In 1868 he brought about a reform in the Court of Session ending technicalities in pleading, to try to focus upon justice in its broadest sense.
He was born in Glen Douglas near Luss in Dunbartonshire on 30 July 1802, the son of Anne Campbell (1771–1827) and Parlane MacFarlane (1771–1827).
[3] In 1863 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Hutton Balfour.
Their son George Lewis MacFarlane (1854–1941) also became a Senator of the College of Justice, as the second Lord Ormidale in 1910.