Robert Scobie (1848 – 15 August 1917) was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Scobie and his young family left Scotland for Bombay where he managed a saddlery and leather business.
They arrived in New South Wales around 1878 and settled in Menindee, where he opened a saddlery business.
Scobie was a Labor Party candidate for Wentworth but was unsuccessful in 1894,[1] 1895,[2] and 1898,[3] before winning the seat in 1901.
[4] Wentworth was abolished in the 1904 redistribution and replaced by Murray, which Scobie won in 1904,[5] and held until his death in 1917.