Premise: Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (8 September 1885 – 12 March 1971) was a New Zealand business man who founded the Farmers Trading Company, one of the largest department store chains in New Zealand. He was also a Christian writer and philanthropist and a well-known lay preacher in the Open Brethren movement.
Hypothesis: Robert Alexander Crookston ran Farmers Trading Company all his life