Robert Kindersley

Robert Kindersley was an English composer and instrumentalist who died on 9 March 1634. He belonged to the court of Charles I of England, where he was a member of the group known as "lutes and voices", an ensemble of lutes and voices in the monarch's service.

In February 1626 he succeeded Roger Major in that post, with a salary of 20 pence a day plus livery. His name appears both among the violinists and among the lutenists in a royal payment list of 1628. After his death, the post passed to Robert Tomkins.

Kindersley composed two versions of Leighton's Teares or Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule (1614), published around 1970 in the EEcM edition: one for four voices with mixed consort, and another for five voices. Three galliards and an almain for solo lute survive, and a greatly simplified version of the almain appears under the title "The Gillyflower" in the Board Lutebook.

His lute music is well crafted, although its style seems old-fashioned for the context of the "lutes and voices", which suggests that these pieces may have been composed much earlier.