Robert Corkey PC (NI) (1881 – 26 January 1966)[1] was a Presbyterian minister, a professor of theology and a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
[2] He was born at Glendermott Parish, Waterside, Derry, the son of Rev.
He was a Minister of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland at Ballygawley from 1906 to 1910 and Monaghan from 1910 to 1917; and then Professor of Ethics and Practical Theology at Assembly's College, Belfast from 1917 to 1951.
He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland from 1945 to 1946.
He served in Sir Basil Brooke's Cabinet as Minister of Education from 1943 to 1944, joining the Privy Council (Northern Ireland) on his promotion.