Rob Robertson-Cuninghame

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| term_end = 1993

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Robert Clarence Robertson-Cuninghame, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} (31 May 1924 – 10 September 2010{{cite web|publisher=The Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre|title=Robertson-Cuninghame, Robert, Clarence (1924 - )|work=Unlocking Regiomal Memory|url=http://www.nswera.net.au/biogs/UNE0364b.htm|access-date=28 August 2007}}{{cite web|publisher=Armidale Express|title=UNE Chancellor farewells 'giant of a man'|url=http://www.armidaleexpress.com.au/news/local/news/general/une-chancellor-farewells-giant-of-a-man/1939721.aspx|access-date=17 September 2010}}), an Australian pastoralist and academic, was the fourth Chancellor of the University of New England, serving between 1981 and 1993.{{cite web|publisher= University of New England|title=Governance|work=Alumni Relations|url=http://alumni.une.edu.au/?page=governance|access-date=10 March 2008 }}

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.{{cite web|publisher=University of Sydney|title=Sydney Alumni Rhodes Scholars list|work=Rhodes and Fulbright Scholars|url=http://www.usyd.edu.au/alumni/about/rhodes.shtml|access-date=10 March 2008}}

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.{{cite web|publisher=The University of New England|title=Robertson-Cuninghame Honours Scholarship|url=http://www.une.edu.au/scholarships/undergraduate/robertson-cuninghame.php|access-date=28 August 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829221151/http://une.edu.au/scholarships/undergraduate/robertson-cuninghame.php|archive-date=29 August 2007|df=}}

See also

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Category:Australian Rhodes Scholars

Category:1924 births

Category:University of Sydney alumni

Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford

Category:2010 deaths

Category:Chancellors of the University of New England (Australia)

Category:People educated at The Armidale School

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