Thomas Graham Robertson, Lord Robertson

The Hon Thomas Graham Robertson, Lord Robertson FRSE (1881-1944) was a 20th-century Scottish advocate, who became a Senator of the College of Justice.[1]

Life

He was born on 23 November 1881 the son of James Hinton Robertson a notary public. The family lived at South Edgehill House in Langside[2] in southern Glasgow. He was educated at Glasgow Academy. He then studied Law at Glasgow University graduating MA LLB. He passed the Scottish bar as an advocate in 1906. At this stage he was living in a flat at 8 Dundas Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town.[3]

In the First World War he worked in the War Trade Department and then moved to the Admiralty at the rank of Lt. Commander in the RNVR.

In 1937 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Alexander Inglis, Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross, Sir John Sutherland, and Sir John Fraser.[4]

He died in Edinburgh on 10 March 1944.

Family

In 1911 he married Mary Snowdon Robertson.

References
  1. https://www.geni.com/projects/Senators-of-the-College-of-Justice/12512
  2. Glasgow Post Office Directory 1881
  3. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1911
  4. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.


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