Robert Richbell (c. 1605–1688) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.
In 1662 he was mayor of Southampton for a year and during this time he called out the militia to suppress a ‘mutiny’.
He owned wine-vaults near the Customs House and a share of a brewery and supplied deal, victuals and rosin to the Portsmouth dockyard.
and in 1671 was allowed to compound for customs frauds relating to the import of wine and tobacco.
[1] Richbell died at the age of about 82 and was buried at St Lawrence church on 16 July 1688.