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Robert Laidlaw
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For the philanthropist, entrepreneur and British politician, see Robert Laidlaw (politician).
Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw CBE (8 September 1885 – 12 March 1971) was a New Zealand businessman who founded the Farmers Trading Company, one of the largest department store chains in New Zealand.[1] He was also a Christian writer and philanthropist[2] and a well-known lay preacher in the Open Brethren movement.
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