Robert Collier, 2nd Baron Monkswell

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Robert Collier, 2nd Baron Monkswell (26 January 1845-22 December 1909), was a British Liberal politician.

Monkswell was the eldest son of Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell and his wife Isabella, daughter of William Rose. The artist John Collier was his younger brother. He entered the House of Lords on his father's death in 1886, and later served in the Liberal administrations of William Gladstone and Lord Rosebery as a government whip from 1892 to 1895 and as Under-Secretary of State for War in 1895.

Lord Monkswell married Mary Josephine, daughter of Joseph Alfred Hardcastle, in 1873. He died in December 1909, aged 64, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Robert Alfred Hardcastle Collier.

Political offices
Preceded by The Lord Sandhurst	Under-Secretary of State for War 1895	Succeeded by William St John Brodrick
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Robert Porrett Monkswell	Baron Monkswell 1886–1998	Succeeded by Robert Alfred Hardcastle Collier