George McRoberts FRSE FCS (1839–1896) was a Scottish chemist and early explosives expert.
[1] He was born in 1839 in central Scotland the son of John N McRoberts and his wife, Sarah Ogle.
Alfred Nobel bought the company in 1871 and started making detonators there, mainly for the Scottish coalfields.
It was McRoberts and a partner John Downie who raised the £24,000 to build the factory rather than Nobel himself, who was yet to become rich from his invention.
[4] In 1883 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposers being Sir James Dewar, William Dittmar, John Gray McKendrick and Robert Rattray Tatlock.