Robert Fellowes (1742–1829) was an English politician, Member of Parliament for Norwich from 1802 to 1807.
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Life
He was the second son of William Fellowes of Shotesham Park, Norfolk and his wife Elizabeth. He was educated in Acton, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1759, graduating B.A. in 1764. William Fellowes (1740–1778) was his elder brother, and his son Robert Fellowes (1770–1847) his nephew.
In 1769 Fellowes was travelling in Italy. He arrived at Venice in September of that year with Thomas Durrant, of Scottow, Member of Parliament for St Ives.
Fellowes succeeded to the position of treasurer to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital on his father's death in 1775, and held it to 1803. Shotesham was enclosed in 1781. The Fellowes family grew the estate over the years, using non-agricultural income to purchase land. In 1872 it was 7,758 acres (3,140 ha) as originally purchased in 1721 the land had been 871 acres (352 ha)
Fellowes had the Hall at Shotesham Park rebuilt by John Soane, in the period from 1785. It was on a new site, about a mile from the old house.
In 1816 Fellowes was one of the founders of the Norwich Savings Bank, with the former Norwich mayor John Hammond Cole, becoming the Bank's President.