Background
Born at Knipe, Westmoreland, on 28 August 1726, he was the son of a maltster from a family of Rutter, Appleby. His mother was the only daughter of Edward Stevenson of Knipe, a relative of Edmund Gibson.
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Joseph Robertson
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Education
Robertson was educated at the free school at Appleby, and on 17 March 1746 matriculated from The Queen"s College, Oxford. He graduated Bachelor of Arts on 19 October 1749, and took holy orders about 1752, being appointed curate to Doctor Sykes at Rayleigh, Essex.
Career
He became rector of Sutton, Essex, in 1770, and in 1779 vicar of Saint Mary"s Church, Horncastle, by the gift of his relative Edmund Law. Robertson died of apoplexy on 19 January 1802, in his seventy-sixth year.
