Robert Alexander Robertson

Robert Alexander Robertson FLS FRSE (1873–1935) was an early 20th-century Scottish botanist. He was president of the Edinburgh Botanical Society from 1915 to 1917. [1]

Life

He was born in Rattray in Perthshire in 1873 and educated locally before going to Edinburgh University to study botany, graduating MA BSc in 1889.

He joined the staff of St Andrews University lecturing in practical zoology.

In 1902 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were David Fraser Harris, Sir Peter Redford Scott Lang, William Carmichael McIntosh, and Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer. He was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1903. He was president of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh in 1915–17.[2]

In the First World War he was in charge of the Officer Training Corps (OTC) at the university, with the rank of captain.

He was promoted to Professor of Botany at St Andrews in 1929.

He retired in the summer of 1934 and died on 22 January 1935.

References

  1. ↑ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F72175
  2. ↑ 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.
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