Robert Steele (1860–1944) was a British scholar, best known for editing between c. 1905 and 1941 the 16-volume Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Bacon.
He soon abandoned this job and moved to London where he worked as a freelance journalist, writing for various literary and socialist publications.
[1] His publications of Bacon's works attracted funding from several learned societies, as well as a Civil List Pension and an Honorary Doctorate from Durham University.
[1] Steele's edition of Bacon's Secretum secretorum, with its lengthy introduction and numerous notes, is seen as the modern basis for its study by English scholars.
Williams, who nonetheless acknowledge the special place that the Secretum played in Bacon's own writings.