Robert Harborough Sherard (3 December 1861 – 30 January 1943) was an English writer and journalist.

[1] He dropped the surname Kennedy upon moving to Paris in late 1882 after a quarrel with his father, who cut him off from the expected family inheritance.

[3][4] Sherard wrote about the effects of immigration into England and his articles have been described as xenophobic and anti-semitic.

[5] Whilst he was an "outspoken anti-semitic observer of 'social problems' "[6] he denied he was motivated by hatred of Jews.

They divorced in 1906 and he married the American novelist, poet and dramatist, Irene Osgood in 1908.