Thomas Graham Robertson, Lord Robertson

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(1881–1944) was a 20th-century Scottish advocate, who became a

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Life

He was born on 23 November 1881, the son of James Hinton Robertson a

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. The family lived at South Edgehill House in

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in southern

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. He was educated at

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. He then studied law at

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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. In the

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, he worked in the War Trade Department and then moved to the

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at the rank of Lt. Commander in the

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. In 1937, he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

John Alexander Inglis John Alexander Inglis of Auchendinny and Redhall FRSE KC LLB (1873–1941) was a Scottish landowner, advocate and historian. He specialised in family histories of Scotland’s gentry. Life He was born at Montpelier Lawn in Cheltenham in En ...

Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross Thomas Mackay Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross (24 September 1892 – 15 July 1956) was a Scotland, Scottish Unionist Party (Scotland), Unionist Party politician, a judge and a historian, who had been appointed Lord Advocate of Scotland. Ba ...

, Sir John Sutherland, and Sir John Fraser. He died in

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on 10 March 1944.

Family

In 1911, he married Mary Snowdon Robertson.

References

1881 births 1944 deaths Lawyers from Glasgow 20th-century Scottish judges Senators of the College of Justice Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{Scotland-law-bio-stub