Robert Blackwood (Irish Politician)
Robert Blackwood may refer to: *Robert Blackwood (Irish MP) (1752–1785), MP for Killyleagh, son of the above * Robert Blackwood (Australian politician) (1861–1940), Australian politician, businessman and pastoralist *Sir Robert Blackwood (engineer) (1906–1982), first Chancellor of Monash University, Australia (1958–1968) * Sir Robert Blackwood, 1st Baronet (1694–1774) * Robert Blackwood of Pitreavie (1624–1720), Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1711–1713 * Bobby Blackwood Robert Rankin Blackwood (20 August 1934 – 25 June 1997) was a Scottish footballer, who played as a wing half in the English Football League and the Scottish Football League Career Born in Edinburgh, Blackwood began his career in Scottish non ...

Robert Blackwood (Irish MP)
Robert Blackwood (April 1752 – 31 January 1785), was an Anglo-Irish politician. Blackwood was the eldest son of Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet, and Dorcas Stevenson, later Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye. He was returned to the Irish Parliament for Killyleagh in 1776, a seat he held until his death nine years later. He died in Belfast in January 1785, after a fall from his horse. He never married and his younger brother James eventually succeeded their father in the baronetcy and their mother in the barony. References 1752 births 1785 deaths Irish MPs 1776–1783 Irish MPs 1783–1790 Heirs apparent who never acceded Robert The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ... Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Down constituencies {{I ...
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Robert Blackwood (Australian Politician)
Robert Officer Blackwood (24 June 1861 – 22 September 1940) was an Australian politician, businessman and pastoralist. He was briefly a member of the Australian House of Representatives for the Division of Riverina. Blackwood was born in 1861 at Crowlands in Victoria, the son of Richard Blackwood (d. 1881) and Isabella, née Officer. He attended Melbourne Church of England Grammar School (1878–79), where he gained a reputation as an athlete. He was admitted to Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1882, where he began boxing – he later became the runner-up in the amateur light-weight boxing championship in England. He returned to Australia in 1889, taking over his father's property in partnership with his brothers. An active community member around Deniliquin, Blackwood was a member of the Pastoralists' Association of Victoria and Southern Riverina. A supporter of Sir George Reid, he was elected to the House of Representatives for Riverina in New South Wales in 1903 by ...
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Robert Blackwood (engineer)
Sir Robert Rutherford Blackwood (3 June 190621 August 1982) was an Australian engineer, prominent businessman and university administrator. He was the first chancellor of Monash University, serving from 1961 to 1968, and chairman of Dunlop Australia from 1972 to 1979. Early life Blackwood was born on 3 June 1906 in South Yarra, Melbourne, the eldest of three children. His father, Robert Leslie Blackwood, was a schoolteacher and tutor in classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics .... His younger sister was Dame Margaret Blackwood, a botanist who later became Dean of Botany at Melbourne University. Blackwood was educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and the University of Melbourne. He graduated from Melbourne University in the early 1930s with a ...
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Sir Robert Blackwood, 1st Baronet
Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, of Ballyleidy and Killyleagh in County Down, Northern Ireland, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created 30 July 1800 for Dame Dorcas Blackwood, widow of Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet, Member of the Irish Parliament for Killyleagh and Bangor, in return for support for the Union of Ireland and the United Kingdom. History The peerage had been intended for Sir John in return for his support for the Union with the Kingdom of Great Britain. The Blackwood Baronetcy, of Killyleagh in the County of Down, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland in 1763 for Robert Blackwood, the father of Sir John Blackwood. He was the son of John Blackwood and Ursula Hamilton, the daughter and co-heir of Robert Hamilton of Killyleagh, County Down. The Blackwood family, originally of Scottish descent, were prominent landowners in County Down and controlled the borough constituency of Killyleagh in the Irish Parliament. Lady Dufferin and Claneboye was the daugh ...
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Robert Blackwood Of Pitreavie
Robert Blackwood of Pitreavie (1624–1720) was a 17th century Scottish silk merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1711 to 1713. Life He was born in 1642 the son of George Blackwood (d.1666). He was descended from Adam Blackwood through Rev William Blackwood of Duddingston in 1584. in 1695 he was one of the 30 men who set up the "Company of Scotland Trading in Africa and the Indies", generally just called the Company of Scotland. The company is remembered for the disastrous Darien Scheme to colonise Panama. All men lost a fortune in this venture in 1698/99. He was Lord Dean of Guild in Edinburgh from around 1700. He was awarded a coat of arms by the Lord Lyon in 1704. Although, unlike his fellow directors of the Company of Scotland, Patrick Johnston and others, Blackwood was not a signatory to the Act of Union 1707 the terms of the Act included the more than dubious agreement to reimburse all losses from the Darien Scheme. Blackwood would have received t ...
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