Hercules Robertson, Lord Benholme
Hercules James Robertson, Lord Benholme (13 October 1795 – 15 September 1874)[1] was a Scottish judge. He became a Senator of the College of Justice in 1853.
Life[edit]
Born in Edinburgh, he was the son of George Robertson – Scott and his wife Isabella Scott.[2]
Robertson was educated at the High School and then studied law at the University of Edinburgh.[2] He was called to the Scottish bar in 1817.[2] Robertson was Sheriff of Renfrewshire in 1842 and was appointed a Lord of Session assuming the judicial title Lord Benholme, after his mother's family seat.[3]
He lived with his family at 76 Great King Street, a very large Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh's Second New Town.[4]
He died in Edinburgh on 15 September 1874.
Family[edit]
On 7 July 1829, he married Ann Wilhelmina Hope (died 1842), the daughter of Charles Hope, Lord Granton.[5] They had four sons and two daughters.[1][5]
His son David Robertson became a minister and married Eleanor Charlotte Dalrymple-Fergusson, daughter of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet of Kilkerran.[6]
His son George Robertson (1830–1896) became a civil engineer in charge of the expansion of Leith Docks. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and President of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts from 1866 to 1868. [7]
Arms[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^ a b Watt, James Crabb (1893). John Inglis, Lord Justice-General of Scotland: A Memoir. W. Green & Sons. pp. 489.
- ^ a b c Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 114.
- ^ Anderson, William (1863). The Scottish Nation. Vol. III. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co. p. 412.
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1857-8
- ^ a b Debrett, John (1870). Robert Henry Mair (ed.). Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son. pp. 428–429.
- ^ "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
- ^ Debrett's Judicial Bench. 1869.
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