Robert Quirk Short (1759 - January 31, 1827) was a Church of England clergyman. He was born at Withycombe Hall in Somerset, England.
He entered the University of Oxford in 1778 and was ordained a deacon in the Church of England in 1783 and a priest on September 30, 1787. He served as a curate in the Diocese of Bath and Wells. In 1796 he and his family emigrated to New York, but plans to purchase land there failed and in the fall they moved to Kingston, Upper Canada.
Short promoted the election of Ezekiel Hart to the House of Assembly in 1807, and in 1811 he came to the defence of Benjamin Hart, whom Colonel Thomas Coffin wished to exclude from the militia, because of his Jewish religion.