Robert Martin Colquhoun Jeffery AKC FRSA, commonly known as Bob Jeffery^[1] (30 April 1935 – 21 December 2016), was an Anglican priest.^[2]

Jeffery was educated at St Paul's School, London, trained for the priesthood at King's College London and ordained in 1960.^[3] His first posts were curacies at St Aidan's, Grangetown^[4] and St Mary's Church, Barnes.^[5] After this he was the assistant secretary of the Missionary and Ecumenical Council of the Church Assembly then secretary of the Department of Mission and Unity for the British Council of Churches.^[4] From 1971 to 1978 he was vicar of St Andrew's Headington^[6] and Rural Dean of Cowley, then in 1978 he was appointed Lichfield diocesan missioner, where he was also Priest-in-Charge of St Bartholomew's, Tong. He was appointed as the Archdeacon of Salop,^[7] in 1980 and seven years later became the Dean of Worcester. In 1996 he became Sub-Dean of Christ Church, a post he held until his retirement in 2002. In 1999, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity by the University of Birmingham, and in 2007 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Ripon College, Cuddesdon.

He married Ruth Tinling in 1968 and had four children, Graham (b. 1969), Hilary (b. 1971), Philippa (b. 1973) and Charles (b.1975).

He died on 21 December 2016 at the age of 81.^[8] Following a funeral service at Christ Church, Oxford on 16 January 2017, he was buried in the churchyard of St Bartholomew's, Tong, Shropshire on 17 January 2017. A collection of his writings compiled by his children, entitled The Kingdom of God is like a Yoghurt Plant,^[9] was published in June 2017.