Robert Ollason

Robert 'Robbie' Ollason was a prominent local public figure in Shetland. He was a mercantile clerk and later had a newsagents & stationers shop at 155 Commercial Street, (where the The Stage Door operated, across from John Rae's jewellers), in later life he was a member of the Shetland Health Board where he played an important role in getting the New Gilbert Bain Hospital built. However, he died before it was opened. He was very involved in local government and represented the Lerwick Town Council between 1919 to 1936, and 1945 to 1960, a total of 32 years. He also represented Whalsay And Skerries between 1938 and 1945. He unsuccessfully contested the 1937 Whalsay & Skerries County Council by-election.