{{Short description|British diplomat}} {{about|the British diplomat|the British industrialist and Member of Parliament|Robert Hyde Greg}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
'''Sir Robert Hyde Greg''', KCMG (24 December 1876 – 3 December 1953), was a British diplomat. He served as the British Minister to Siam from 1921 to 1926 and to Romania from 1926 to 1929.<ref>{{Who's Who|id=237955|title=Greg, Sir Robert Hyde|type=was}}</ref>
Greg was also a noted collector of Egyptian antiquities. In his will, he bequeathed his collection of 626 objects to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. He also left a substantial part of his estate to the museum, but the funds were confiscated by the Egyptian government in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis. In 1964, compensation amounting to £33,515 17s 6d was paid to the Fitzwilliam Museum. This formed the Greg Fund, which exists to the present day.<ref>{{Cite web |title=(Sir) Robert Hyde Greg |url=https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/objects-and-artworks/highlights/context/patrons-donors-collectors/sir-robert-hyde-greg |website=The Fitzwilliam Museum}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=4 May 1964 |title=Gift: Impounded Pounds |pages=20 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/04/archives/gift-impounded-pounds.html}}</ref>
In 1914, Greg married the American heiress Julia Fairchild Schreiner.
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