Name Robert Scobie | ||
Robert Scobie (7 September 1831 – 31 December 1909) was a Scottish-born Australian politician.
He was born in Stirlingshire to Michael Scobie and Elizabeth Hough. His family arrived in New South Wales in 1839 and settled near Maitland. Scobie worked on the family property and also had success on the goldfields, eventually owning a vineyard and orchard at Mount Pleasant near Maitland from 1859. On 2 June 1859 he married Mary Warren, with whom he had fifteen children. A prominent figure in local agricultural circles and a supporter of the temperance movement, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1889 as the Free Trade member for Hunter. He held his seat until 1894, when he was defeated. Scobie died at his property at Oakhampton near Maitland in 1909.