Edward Robert Emerson (1838–1926) was Archdeacon of Cork from 1890 until 1926.
Emerson was educated at Bandon Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1861. After a curacy at Fanlobbus, he was rector of St Edmund's, County Cork from 1865 to 1890 and treasurer of Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral from 1899.
He died on 30 November 1926.