Sir Robert Rutherford Blackwood (3 June 1906 – 21 August 1982) was an Australian engineer, prominent businessman and university administrator.
[1] In 1933, one year after his marriage to Hazel Levenia McLeod, Blackwood joined Dunlop Rubber, a company he would work with extensively for decades.
[2] He left the company to become Foundation Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Melbourne University, before returning to Dunlop in 1948 to be its general manager.
[1] Blackwood later returned to Pacific Dunlop as managing director and then as chairman of what was one of the largest Australian companies of its time.
He was survived by his wife Hazel, their son Andrew, daughter Janet and grandchildren Nikki, Robert, Julian and Alistair.