Rob Robertson-Cuninghame

Robert Clarence Robertson-Cuninghame, (31 May 1924 – 10 September 2010 ), an Australian pastoralist and academic, was the fourth Chancellor of the University of New England, serving between 1981 and 1993.

Biography A descendant of Frederick Robert White, the builder of Booloominbah, Robertson-Cuninghame was educated at The Armidale School and the University of Sydney where he lived at St Andrew's College and studied for a Bachelor of Science in agriculture, before winning a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford in 1949.

Robertson-Cuninghame served as patron to the UNE Union, who in 2003 named the central cafeteria Dr Rob's in his honour. Today, the university also offers the Robertson-Cuninghame Honours Scholarship for honours students, which has also been named after the former Chancellor.