well as philanthropic donations: In 1913 he donated his property for use by the Fairfield Bowling, Tennis and Croquet Club. In 1921 he promoted a romanticised book of his enterprise entitled A Young Man and a Nail Can. In 1925 he presented a silver mounted shield to establish the MacRobertson International Croquet Shield. The event is now played every three or four years in rotation between England, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. In 1928 he sponsored the MacRobertson Expedition, a circuit of Australia in two Karrier trucks. The five-month expedition departed from Parliament House in Melbourne on 12 April and returned on 12 September 1928. In 1929 he financed a combined British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic expedition. Sir Douglas Mawson named Mac. Robertson Land in his honour, and Robertson's 1932 knighthood specifically recognised his support for this expedition. In 1933 he contributed to the Melbourne centenary celebrations, including £40,000 towards the establishment of the Mac.Robertson Girls' High School and was commemorated there with a bust he commissioned from August Rietmann. He contributed towards other public works projects as part of the centenary celebrations including the MacRobertson Bridge over the Yarra River at Grange Road, a fountain in front of the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance and the herbarium in the Royal Botanic Gardens. In 1934 he co-founded Western Australian airline MacRobertson Miller Airlines (MMA) with pilot Horrie Miller. In the same year he sponsored the MacRobertson Air Race with a prize fund of $75,000, an air race from London to Melbourne. Honours Robertson was appointed a Knight Bachelor on 3 June 1932, for services to Antarctic expeditions. On New Year's Day 1935, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), for philanthropic services in Victoria. Notes References Lack, John, 'Robertson, Sir Macpherson (1859–1945)' Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 11, Melbourne University Press, 1988, pp 418–419. OnlyMelbourne Melburnian Bio Maui Croquet Club bio White Hat Tours bio Tom Campbell Black co-winner of the MacRobertson London to Melbourne Air Race 1934 19th World Team Association Croquet Championship 2006 MacRobertson's Confectionery Factory on Culture Victoria 19th-century Australian businesspeople Australian philanthropists 1859 births 1945 deaths Australian Knights Bachelor Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire People from Ballarat People from Fitzroy, Victoria 20th-century Australian businesspeople Confectioners Australian people of Scottish descent Australian people of Irish descent