Sir Robert Henry Rew KCB (4 August 1858 – 7 April 1929) was a British agricultural statistician.He had a long career in public service and was a prominent member of the Royal Statistical Society serving as its President from 1920-22.He was the son of Robert Rew (1835–1917), a Congregational minister in Somerset and Buxton.[4] At the beginning of World War I, in November 1914, Rew was put in charge of the government's Grain Supplies Committee, which he chaired to 1916.He stood twice for the Liberals in Henley (UK Parliament constituency) in 1922 and 1923 but lost on both occasions to Conservative Reginald Terrell.