Sir Dennis Holme Robertson was an English economist who taught at Cambridge and London Universities.
Background
Robertson, the son of a Church of England clergyman, was born in Lowestoft and educated as a scholar of Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Classics and Economics.Robertson worked closely with John Maynard Keynes in the 1920s and 1930s, during the years when Keynes was developing many of the ideas that later were incorporated in his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
Career
Officer Trinity College in 1914, Dennis Robertson studied under Arthur Pigou , began as a lecture on political economy in 1930 and inherited the chair of Pigou in 1944, his whole activity is associated with Cambridge, except for the period from 1939 to 1944, when he was a professor of political economy at the University of London.