Background
Robertson was the son of the Review R. J. Robertson, of Forteviot, Perthshire and his wife Helen Bannerman, daughter of Review J. Bannerman of Cargill, Perthshire.
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He studied at Edinburgh University (Master of Arts 1864, honorary Doctor of Laws 1890), and passed to the Scottish bar in 1867.
Career
He became a Queen"s Counsel in 1885. Robertson stood unsuccessfully for parliament at Linlithgowshire in 1880. He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in 1885 and again in 1886 and was appointed Lord Advocate in 1888 and was made a Privy Counsellor in the same year.
He carried the Local Government (Scotland) Acting 1889.
Robertson gave up his seat when he was appointed Lord President of the Court of Session in 1891, and was appointed a Law lord and peer as Baron Robertson, of Forteviot in the County of Perthshire. He was Rector of Edinburgh University in 1893 and was also Chairman of the Irish University Commission.
He was a Trustee of the Board of Manufactures in Scotland, from which he resigned in 1899. In later life he retired to live in Muchalls Castle in Aberdeenshire and died at the age of 74.
Robertson married Philadelphia Mary Lucy Fraser, daughter of West. North. Fraser of Tornaveen, Aberdeenshire in 1872.
Membership
24th United Kingdom Parliament]
At the 1885 general election he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Buteshire and held the seat until 1891. In 1899, he was a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
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Political Party
Conservative Party