Robert Kerr Hannay FRSE (31 December 1867, Glasgow – 19 March 1940, Edinburgh) was a Scottish historian. He served as Historiographer Royal of Scotland and Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh.[1]
He collected and calendared the letters of both James 1V and James V,[2] and wrote The Early History of the Scottish Signet. He is the grandfather of writer Alastair Hannay.