Robert Crompton CBE QC (1869 – 19 December 1958) was a British lawyer and politician in Fiji.
Alongside Henry Marks, John Maynard Hedstrom and Henry Milne Scott, he was one of the 'big four' that heavily influenced the Fijian economy and political sphere in the first half of the 20th century.
[1] Crompton was born in the Russian Empire in 1869 to an English father, and was educated at a Bluecoat school in Warrington.
[2] After qualifying as a lawyer, he moved to Fiji in 1904 and founded a law firm,[1] going on to represent Hedstrom and Marks.
[3] His first wife Roseline Allen died in 1927; the couple had four children, Hollins, Robert, Rose and Ruve.