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Lord Robert Rich (sometimes incorrectly referred to as Richard Rich) (born c. 1585, died 1630) was an English soldier and traveler.

Robert aspired to colonize Virginia, and set out in 1609 to the Jamestown, Virginia settlement. During the journey, a tropical storm caused the ship, the Sea Venture to be run aground on the uninhabited St. George's Island, Bermuda with George Somers, Thomas Gates, William Strachey, Silvester Jourdain and other settlers marooned.

Robert Rich wrote a "verse pamphlet" abbreviated as, 'Newes from Virginia. The lost Flocke Triumphant' [sic]. Along with the writings of William Strachey and Silvester Jourdain, became well-known in England in 1610, when Thomas Gates and Christopher Newport retold the saga in London.

Raised with a strong puritanical outlook, he and his brother Nathaniel Rich were allies to the Puritans and to his cousin, Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick.

Robert Rich returned to Bermuda in 1616 or 1617, and died there in 1630.

Robert was brother to Nathaniel Rich, board member of the Somers Isles Company. His father was Richard Rich and mother was Ann or Jane Rich (nee Machell).