Robert Charles Edgcumbe, 8th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1 June 1939 – 12 June 2021) was a New Zealand-British peer. Edgcumbe was the son of Meta Lhoyer and George Aubrey Valletort Edgcumbe. He was educated at Nelson College from 1951 to 1955. He married Joan Ivy Wall, daughter of Ernest Wall in 1960 and together they had five daughters. They divorced in 1988. The Earl then lived with Beryl Cottrell, from Millbrook who he later married in 2017. He succeeded to his titles in 1982. He was an estate manager in New Zealand. Members of the Edgcumbe family have lived in New Zealand since the 1860s.