Alan Cobcroft

Alan Ridge Cobcroft (died 5 September 1955) was a Western Samoan planter and politician.

Cobcroft was the son of parents from the Sydney suburb of Summer Hill.

After leaving school, he moved to Fiji in 1907 to work on the sugar plantations of C.S.R.

[1] After a brief stint working in the Territory of New Guinea, he returned to Western Samoa and established his own cocoa plantation.

[1] Cobcroft contested the 1932 elections to the Legislative Council with the support of the Chamber of Commerce and the Planters' Association.