Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet, FRS, LL.D (1736–25 December 1809) was an English peer, churchman and scientist.

He was Dean of Lincoln from 1783, and inherited the baronetcy from his elder brother Sir John Lister Kaye, 5th Baronet in 1789.

He was a patron of the artists Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, whom he commissioned for two decades to draw "everything curious",[1] and Tilly Kettle.

(Howard & Crisp 1896, p. 53)(Wilson 1971, p. 243) Kaye was noted both for his piety but also as a great pluralist holding many rich livings in the Church of England at the same time.

[4] After about 1770 Grimm was to portray life in the parish with pictures of harvest devotions and the village schoolchildren attending a church service.