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George S Robertson, Provost of Stromness (1946 - 1953), Founder of Stromness Golf Club

As a County Councillor as well as Provost of Stromness, Doddy Robertson was instrumental in setting up Stromness Shopping Week, in an effort to encourage trade and footfall in the town, and co-founded the Stromness Golf Course at Ness in 1923 where he played regularly well into his 90s. Other key community facilities were also greatly aided by his work including the Stromness Swimming Pool, the football pitch at the market green and Stromness Community Centre. In the words of his friend Ian MacInnes, Doddy Robertson ‘…entered on his own gentle crusade to make things better for Stromness.’.

Robertson served for 27 years on Stromness Town Council and for many years on Orkney County Council Education Committee (Orkney Islands Council was established in 1975) and as Postmaster at Stromness Post Office