Robert W. Arnold III is a career public historian. He was for seventeen years Chief of Government Records Services at the New York State Archives, directing a regionally based program of technical assistance and grants for local governments and providing services for state agencies. Arnold was Albany County Historian for a number of years and directed numerous archaeological excavations in the Capital District. He also directed the historic structures inventory of hundreds of Albany's buildings. Arnold is a longtime Commissioner of Historic Resources for the City of Albany. He was founding president of the New York Association of Local Government Records Officers, is a recipient of its Guy D. Paquin Award for leadership; that Association's Lifetime Achievement Award is named for him. He is an honorary life member of that Association and of the Association of Public Historians of New York State.

Arnold has taught at the adult and college levels since 1973. He has taught colonial American, 19th century US, New York State and regional history for 23 years at the College of Saint Rose and for three years at Excelsior College. He also has taught at Russell Sage College, Sage College of Albany, and Empire State College. Arnold is a consultant in history and a frequent lecturer around New York State.

Arnold was Seanacaidh of the Clan Mackay by appointment of the Twenty-Seventh Chief of Mackay. He is a former paratrooper and Ranger officer with three grown children and a grandson who also wears the kilt in Mackay tartan. He was selected for Who's Who in America, 2009.

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