Background
Joseph Robertson was born on May 17, 1810 at Aberdeen, Scotland. He was the son of a small shopkeeper.
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Illustrations of the Topography and Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, Volume 1
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Joseph Robertson
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He was educated in Marischal College in Aberdeen and was for some years engaged in literary and newspaper work there and in Glasgow and Edinburgh. In 1864 the University of Edinburgh conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL. D.
Career
In 1839 he helped to found the Spalding Club, organized to publish the historical, genealogical, topographical and literary remains of the north-eastern counties of Scotland, and he edited eight of its thirty-eight volumes. In 1853 he was appointed curator of the historical and antiquarian department of the General Register House, Edinburgh, hitherto a subordinate and unimportant office, but which, in his hands, became of the first consequence to the interests of antiquarian literature in Scotland. His inventory of the personal property and jewels of Mary Queen of Scots, prefaced by a paper of great learning and research, and his essays on Scottish architecture, preceded his greatest work, published by the Bannatyne Club (1866), Concilia Scotiae, Ecclesiae Scoticanae Statuta.
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His chief contribution was the ‘Collections for a History of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, ’ 1842, which formed the preface to ‘Illustrations of the Topography and Antiquities of Aberdeen and Banff. This is the most complete series of records, public and private, which any county in Scotland has yet published.
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Illustrations of the Topography and Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, Volume 1
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Illustrations of the Topography and Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, Volume 1
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Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom -
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Whig