Sir Robert Carr, 3rd Baronet (c. 1637 – 14 November 1682) was a prominent English politician of the Restoration period who served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the reign of Charles II.

[1] He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted as a Fellow Commoner on 6 March 1654, matriculated in 1655, and took his master's degree the same year.

"[1] In 1674, the French embassy reported that Arlington hoped to use Carr's prestige in the Commons to win support for the continuance of the Anglo-French alliance against the Dutch Republic.

[1] Carr's support for the Court faction led to him being labelled "doubly vile" by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury.

Carr spoke repeatedly in support of increased supply; he helped to prepare the addresses asking the King to withstand the danger from France and promising a credit of £200,000 for developing a naval programme.

[1] On 12 June 1678 he was removed from the Privy Council after becoming caught in a scandal regarding the Earl of Lindsey's suspected use of militia to intimidate voters in Stamford.

Nonetheless, following the Popish Plot, Carr defended giving commissions to Roman Catholic officers and supported allowing James, Duke of York to retain his seat in the House of Lords.

In 1680, Carr was restored to the Privy Council, but refused to convey the king's message to the Commons that the Exclusion Bill would be vetoed.