Robert Nares (9 June 1753, York – 23 March 1829) was an English clergyman, philologist and author.

In 1787 he was appointed Chaplain to the Duke of York and in 1788 he was Assistant preacher at Lincoln's Inn.

He became vicar of Dalbury, Derbyshire in 1796, rector of Sharnford, Canon Residentiary of Lichfield Cathedral and Prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral in 1798, Archdeacon of Stafford in 1801 and Vicar of St Mary's, Reading, from 1805 to 1818 and then of All Hallows, London Wall until his death in 1829.

[2] There was a reissue of this book in 1792 with the revised title General Rules for the Pronunciation of the English Language.

In 1822 he published his principal work, Nares' Glossary,[3][4] which was described in 1859, by Halliwell and Wright, as indispensable to readers of Elizabethan Literature.