Sir Robert Benson Ewbank, CSI,^[1] CIE (22 October 1883 – 2 September 1967) ^[2] was an eminent British colonial civil servant in the twentieth century.

Educated at Carlisle Grammar School and The Queen's College, Oxford^[3] he was Registrar of Co-operative Societies for the Bombay Presidency from 1911 to 1919; Deputy Secretary to the Government of India from 1920 to 1924 (and Acting Secretary between 1926 and 1927); its representative in East Africa from 1927 to 1928; and General Secretary to the Government of Bombay from 1929 to 1934. From 1936 to 1939 he was a Member of the Commission of Government of Newfoundland^[4] in charge of Natural Resources. In retirement he was Chairman of the Lake District Committee of the National Trust from 1948 to 1962; a member of the Church Assembly from 1950 to 1960; and High Sheriff of Westmorland from 1957 to 58.^[5]

• Monograph, scrapbooks and photograph album relating to R B Ewbank's life and career in the Indian Civil Service at Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal