Robert Patten Adams (4 March 1831 – 24 February 1911), was a politician and puisne judge in Tasmania.
He subsequently became Chairman of Quarter Sessions and a Commissioner of the Court of Requests for the northern division of Tasmania.
[2] Having embraced political life, he entered the House of Assembly, and was returned for Hobart Town in 1859, 1861, and from 1862 to 1866.
[2] Adams was married twice; his first wife, who died in 1867, being Harriett Matilda, daughter of the Captain George King, R.N.
He then married Kate, daughter of the George Francis Huston, JP, of New Norfolk, Tasmania.