Education
University of Oxford. University of Sydney.
University of Oxford. University of Sydney.
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 studied 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 Doctor 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.