ROBERTSON, WILLIAM HENRY; b.; in school list 1801; left Easter 1803. [Apparently = SEWELL, SIR WILLIAM HENRY; said to have been educated at Westminster and Eton (in Eton school lists 1805, as Robertson), and to have changed his surname to Sewell from Robertson when he entered the army; Ensign, 60th Foot 27 Mar 1806; 16th Light Dragoons 1806; Lieut., 20 Feb 1807; Capt., 12 Mar 1812; Capt., 60th Foot 1813; brevet Maj., 3 Mar 1814; Lieut. -Col., 21 Jun 1817; half-pay 25 Oct 1821; served in Peninsular War; ADC and Staff Officer to Lord Beresford; re-employed as Deputy Quartermaster-General, Madras 24 Feb 1828 – 18 Jun 1841; Capt., 49th Foot 29 May 1828; Maj., 31st Foot 11 Aug 1829; Col. in Army 10 Jan 1837; CB 19 Jul 1838; Lieut. -Col., 6th Foot 17 Sep 1839; 94th Foot 30 Mar 1841; commanding British troops, Bangalore 1841-6; Major-Gen., 9 Mar 1846; commanding Central Division, Madras Presidency 1849-51, Mysore Division 1851-4; Col., 26th Foot 24 Mar 1852; Col., 79th Foot, from 24 Mar 1854; Lieut. -Gen., 20 Nov 1854; acting Commander in Chief, Madras 1855; retd. 1856; KCB 28 Jun 1861; Gen., 10 Nov 1861; m. at Madras 1831 Georgina Hacking, dau. of Major-Gen. Sir John Dalrymple, Bart.; d. at Florence, Italy 13 Mar 1862, aged 72]
Robertson, William Alexander, eldest son of William Robertson, of Westminster, by Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Grant, of Edinburgh; b. Aug. 2, 1871; adm. Jan. 24, 1884 (H); left (with a Triplett gratuity) July 1889; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Oct. 1 1, 1889; scholar 1892; B.A. 1893; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Nov. 18, 1901; North-Eastern Circuit; edited the 2nd and 3rd editions of Macnamara's Law of Carriers of Merchandise and Passengers by Land, and other works; d. May 7, 1937, by his will bequesthed £800 to the school for the foundation of prizes.
ROBERTSON, THOMAS; b.; adm. 26 Jun 1776.
Robertson, Reginald James, brother of William Alexander Robertson (q.v.); b. Aug. 16, 1873; adm. Jan. 14, 1886 (H); left July 1891; d. June 1, 1936.
ROBERTSON, RAYMOND INVERARITY, brother of Leslie Wybrow Robertson (qv); b. 8 Aug 1860; adm. 4 Jun 1874; left May 1877; manager at cement works, Grays, Thurrock, Essex (1881 Census); manufacturer of Portland cement; m. 19 Jun 1890 Edith Mary, second dau. of George Findlay, Hong Kong.
ROBERTSON, PATRICK MACGREGOR, eldest son of Daniel Robertson, London, and Helen Maclachlan (IGI); b. 16 Nov 1830; adm. 18 Jan 1844 (Benthall's); QS 1845; rowed v. Eton 30 Jul 1846, 29 Jul 1847; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1849, adm. pens. 19 may 1849, scholar 1850, matr. 1849, but did not graduate; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 1 May 1854; equity draftsman and conveyancer; d. 6 Nov 1857.
Robertson, Norman Cairns, brother of William Alexander Robertson (q.v.); b. Jan. 9, 1876; adm. Sept. 25, 1888 (H); left April 1894; joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. 1914; Capt. 2nd Batt. Hants Regt. Feb. 20, 1915; taken prisoner near Monchy, April 23, 1917; d. in a German military hospital at Hanover, June 20, 1917.
ROBERTSON, LESLIE WYBROW, son of Archibald David Robertson, Bombay Civil Service (formerly EICS Bombay), and Charlotte Henrietta, dau. of Archibald Spens, EICS Bombay, Lathallan, Polmont, Stirlingshire; b. 15 Jan 1859; adm. 4 Jun 1874; left May 1877; manager at cement works, Grays, Thurrock, Essex (1881 Census); m. Mary Robertson Butler; d. 1 Feb 1929.
Robertson, Laurence Grant, brother of William Alexander Robertson (q.v.); b. May 5, 1877; adm. May 8, 1891 (H); left April 1895; a chartered accountant on the District Audit Staff of the Local Government Board; 2nd Lieut. Army Ordnance Dept. Feb. 7, 1915, attached King's Own Scottish Borderers July 1915; killed in action at Delville Wood in the Battle of the Somme, France, July 30, 1916; unm.
Robertson, John Abel, second son of John Abel Robertson, of Westminster, by Barbara Price, daughter of Thomas Keay; b. May 4, 1876; adm. Sept. 26, 1889 (A); left July 1894; successively a clerk in the Bank of England and a director of Close Bros.; d. June 9, 1947.