Robert Hildyard (MP for Whitehaven)
Robert Charles Hildyard was a British Conservative politician.
Hildyard was born in Winestead, East Riding of Yorkshire in 1800. He was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1824. He was first elected Conservative MP for Whitehaven at the 1847 general election and held the seat until his death in 1857.