JAMES ROBERTSON, the son of a Scotch farmer, was born at Blair Athol, Perthshire, on the 16th of February 1818. He was educated at the High School at Perth.
Mr. Robertson was elected a Member of the Institution on the 5th of December, 1854, and a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts in the same year. He was a captain in the 8th Essex Volunteers from 1859 to 1864.
Mr. Robertson was well known to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, having made all the arrangements in connection with the royal visits to Sandringham from their commencement, and he had the honour of being invited on several occasions to garden-parties at Marlborough House. The Prince wrote from Athens when he heard of Mr. Robertson’s death, deeply regretting the circumstance, and directing that his condolence should be sent to the family.
An excellent constitution enabled Mr. Robertson to attend without remission to his duties almost to the end of his life. The illness which terminated in his death, on the 7th of October 1889, lasted only ten weeks, and he can fairly be said to have died in harness at the age of seventy-one. Perhaps no higher tribute can be paid to his memory than the injunction given to a meeting of the official staff of the Great Eastern Railway by the Chairman, who ended an allusion to Mr. Robertson’s career among them by saying, 'Go thou and do likewise.'
Mr. Robertson was elected a Member of the Institution on the 5th of December, 1854, and a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts in the same year. He was a captain in the 8th Essex Volunteers from 1859 to 1864.
Mr. Robertson was well known to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, having made all the arrangements in connection with the royal visits to Sandringham from their commencement, and he had the honour of being invited on several occasions to garden-parties at Marlborough House. The Prince wrote from Athens when he heard of Mr. Robertson’s death, deeply regretting the circumstance, and directing that his condolence should be sent to the family.
An excellent constitution enabled Mr. Robertson to attend without remission to his duties almost to the end of his life. The illness which terminated in his death, on the 7th of October 1889, lasted only ten weeks, and he can fairly be said to have died in harness at the age of seventy-one. Perhaps no higher tribute can be paid to his memory than the injunction given to a meeting of the official staff of the Great Eastern Railway by the Chairman, who ended an allusion to Mr. Robertson’s career among them by saying, 'Go thou and do likewise.'
JAMES ROBERTSON, the son of a Scotch farmer, was born at Blair Athol, Perthshire, on the 16th of February 1818. He was educated at the High School at Perth.
Mr. Robertson was elected a Member of the Institution on the 5th of December, 1854, and a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts in the same year. He was a captain in the 8th Essex Volunteers from 1859 to 1864.
Mr. Robertson was well known to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, having made all the arrangements in connection with the royal visits to Sandringham from their commencement, and he had the honour of being invited on several occasions to garden-parties at Marlborough House. The Prince wrote from Athens when he heard of Mr. Robertson’s death, deeply regretting the circumstance, and directing that his condolence should be sent to the family.
An excellent constitution enabled Mr. Robertson to attend without remission to his duties almost to the end of his life. The illness which terminated in his death, on the 7th of October 1889, lasted only ten weeks, and he can fairly be said to have died in harness at the age of seventy-one. Perhaps no higher tribute can be paid to his memory than the injunction given to a meeting of the official staff of the Great Eastern Railway by the Chairman, who ended an allusion to Mr. Robertson’s career among them by saying, 'Go thou and do likewise.'
Mr. Robertson was elected a Member of the Institution on the 5th of December, 1854, and a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts in the same year. He was a captain in the 8th Essex Volunteers from 1859 to 1864.
Mr. Robertson was well known to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, having made all the arrangements in connection with the royal visits to Sandringham from their commencement, and he had the honour of being invited on several occasions to garden-parties at Marlborough House. The Prince wrote from Athens when he heard of Mr. Robertson’s death, deeply regretting the circumstance, and directing that his condolence should be sent to the family.
An excellent constitution enabled Mr. Robertson to attend without remission to his duties almost to the end of his life. The illness which terminated in his death, on the 7th of October 1889, lasted only ten weeks, and he can fairly be said to have died in harness at the age of seventy-one. Perhaps no higher tribute can be paid to his memory than the injunction given to a meeting of the official staff of the Great Eastern Railway by the Chairman, who ended an allusion to Mr. Robertson’s career among them by saying, 'Go thou and do likewise.'
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