Robertson, James ♂
Education
Student St Mary’s College 1859-1862. Foundation bursar, 1859. Chancellor’s prize, 1861.
LL.D.2.4.1907.
Birth/childhood
Born 2.3.1840 son of William Robertson, shoemaker, Alyth and Marjory Mitchell.
Career
Also at King’s College, Aberdeen - M.A. 1859.
Licensed by St Andrews presbytery.
Missionary Constantinople [now Istanbul, Turkey] 1862-1864. Beirut 1864-1867. Minister Mayfield, Edinburgh 1875-1877. Professor of Hebrew, Glasgow University 1877 - 1907 (resigned). [University professor]
Publications. D.D. Aberdeen 1880.
Death
Died 23.12.1920.
Sources
- UYSM400/5/242, 292
- Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
- Deaths Reg. Newington 1920/751