Admiral Sir Robert Howe Bromley, 3rd Baronet DL (28 November 1778 – 8 July 1857) was a Royal Navy officer of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

After joining the navy in 1791 under the auspices of his relative Captain Henry Curzon, he participated in the Macartney Embassy to China as a midshipman and also spent time serving in the English Channel and Mediterranean Sea.

Bromley's most active command was of the post ship HMS Champion from 1803, in which he fought against the Flottille de Boulogne to help stop preparations for Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom before being sent to the North America Station.

He served on Lapwing in the Mediterranean Fleet until he transferred to join the ship of the line HMS Lion, recommissioned in May 1792, under Captain Sir Erasmus Gower.

[2][3][4] Some time soon after this Bromley moved to serve in the flagship of Admiral Lord Howe, the ship of the line HMS Queen Charlotte, in the English Channel.

[2][8][9] Pelican was heavily damaged in a storm in St Aubyn's Bay, Jersey, on 9 November and was sent to Plymouth Dockyard for repairs; with her out of action Bromley was moved over to the frigate HMS Doris in December.

[15] In Champion Bromley was based in the English Channel on the Downs Station patrolling between Ostend and Le Havre to disturb the preparations for Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom.

[2][16] In one notable engagement on 23 July 1805 he attacked part of the Flottille de Boulogne near Saint-Valery-en-Caux, receiving heavy damage to his ship and losing two men killed.

[Note 2][6] Not serving actively in the navy, Bromley instead became a deputy lieutenant for his home county of Nottinghamshire on 31 January 1829, living as he did at Stoke Hall.