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James W. Robertson

1823–86

Major and adjutant of marines. Breeder of deerhounds. Son of Patrick Robertson, Scottish judge. Husband of Isabella Traill Balfour.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office [reference numbers])

Census returns of Scotland 1881 (The National Archives of Scotland: Alloa ED10/1/7)

Cupples 1894: 58

ODNB s.v. Patrick Robertson

Scotland statutory deaths 525/02 0014 (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 11 February 2016)

Bibliography

Cupples, George. 1894. Scotch deer-hounds and their masters. With a biographical sketch of the author by James Hutchison Stirling. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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