Captain David Robbie (4 March 1849 – 1940) was a Scottish-born businessman, planter and politician in Fiji.
He then moved to Fiji in 1876, where he bought his own boat, a schooner named Midge,[2] and traded across the Pacific islands.
After the company's premises burnt down in 1889, he moved to Levuka, where he married and started running the Royal Hotel.
[2] He subsequently established his own merchants firm, Robbie and Evans,[1] which was later bought by Burns Philp.
[3] He then established a cocoa, coffee, rubber, tea and vanilla plantation on Vanua Levu.