Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw CBE (8 September 1885 – 12 March 1971) was a New Zealand businessman who founded the Farmers Trading Company, one of the largest department store chains in New Zealand.[1] He was also a Christian writer and philanthropist[2] and a well-known lay preacher in the Open Brethren movement.
- ^ Hunter, Ian (2011). Man for Our Time: Robert Laidlaw, The Founder of Farmers. Hunter Publishing. ISBN 9781927181003.
- ^ Dictionary of New Zealand Biography