Sir Robert Hamilton, 6th Baronet

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Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton, 6th Baronet, KCB, DL (7 April 1802 – 31 May 1887) was a British politician and East India Company civil servant. He was the eldest son of Sir Frederic Hamilton, 5th Baronet, and Eliza Ducarel Collie, and he became baronet in 1853.

He joined the East India Company civil service in 1820 and worked in Benares until 1830. In 1834 he was appointed Magistrate and Collector of Meerut for three years, then served as Commissioner of the Agra Division from 1837 to 1841, including during the famine. He later held the post of secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Provinces (1841–1852) and then as Agent to the Governor-General in Central India (1852–60). He was made a member of the Governor-General's Council in 1859 and was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1860, retiring from service that year.

Returning to England, he became a Deputy Lieutenant and magistrate for Warwickshire and served as High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1866. He lived at Avon Cliffe in Stratford-upon-Avon and stood as a Liberal candidate for South Warwickshire in the 1868 and 1874 general elections.

In 1831 he married Constance, daughter of General Sir George Anson; she died in 1842, leaving two sons and three daughters. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Frederick, in 1887.