Robert Shackleton CBE (25 November 1919 – 9 September 1986) was an English French language philologist and librarian.
[1] Shackleton was born in Todmorden, West Riding of Yorkshire.
In 1983-84 he held the Lyell Readership in Bibliography and lectured on "The Bibliographical History of Montesquieu.
"[2] From 1979 to 1986 he was Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the university, a position that carried with it a Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford.
He was a bibliophile who amassed a considerable collection of books relating to the Enlightenment, much of which is now in the John Rylands Library in Manchester.