Robert Ram (c.1595-1656) was an Anglican priest in the early seventeenth century.

[4] In 1637 he established a Parish Library,[4] the books from which are in the care of Spalding Gentlemen's Society.

During the English Civil War he was taken from his home by Royalists ("Cavaliers") and held hostage in Crowland.

In 1645 he was appointed Chaplain to Colonel Sir Edward Rossiter's Lincolnshire Cavalry Regiment[5] He was the author of The Soldiers’ Catechism[6] which was issued to the New Model Army, along with The Souldiers Pocket Bible compiled by Edmund Calamy the Elder.

John Turner wrote in 1684, in regards to Charles II, that the Soldier's Catechism “was without question none of the meanest instruments in bringing his royal father to the block.