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ROBERTSON, JOSEPH (1810-1866)

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ROBERTSON, See also:JOSEPH (1810-1866) , Scottish See also:antiquary, was See also:born at See also:Aberdeen on the 17th of May 181o, the son of a small shopkeeper. He was educated in Marischal See also:College in Aberdeen and was for some years engaged in See also:literary and See also:news-See also:paper See also:work there and in See also:Glasgow and See also:Edinburgh. In 1839 he helped to found the See also:Spalding See also:Club, organized to publish the See also:historical, genealogical, topographical and literary remains of the See also:north-eastern counties of See also:Scotland, and he edited eight of its See also:thirty-eight volumes. In 1853 he was appointed See also:curator of the historical and antiquarian See also:department of the See also:General See also:Register See also:House, Edinburgh, hitherto a subordinate and unimportant See also:office, but which, in his hands, became of the first consequence to the interests of antiquarian literature in Scotland. His See also:inventory of the See also:personal See also:property and jewels of See also:Mary See also:Queen of Scots, prefaced by a paper of See also:great learning and See also:research, and his essays on Scottish See also:architecture, preceded his greatest work, published by the See also:Bannatyne Club (1866), Concilia Scotiae, Ecclesiae Scoticanae Statuta. In 1864 the University of Edinburgh conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. He died on the 13th of See also:December 1866.

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