Robert Pullar

Sir Robert Pullar FRSE (18 February 1828 – 9 September 1912)[1] was a Scottish Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.

[6] In 1857 the firm formed a relationship with the inventor William Perkin to be the first manufacturer to successfully introduce purple aniline dye.

The firm also branched into dry cleaning, a technique he learned from Germany, establishing a plant in Tulloch in 1882.

[8] At this time he lived at 6 St Leonards Bank in Perth and ran the North British Dyeworks on Kinnoull Street.

[11] At the time of his election, he was six days short of his 79th birthday, making his possibly the oldest parliamentary debut of an MP in the 20th century.

He rarely spoke in debates and was criticized by local trade unions for failing to support measures to help the unemployed.