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JOSEPH ROBERTSON (1810-1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 406 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH ROBERTSON (1810-1866)  , Scottish
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antiquary, was born at Aberdeen on the 17th of May 181o, the son of a small shopkeeper . He was educated in Marischal College in Aberdeen and was for some years engaged in
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literary and
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news-paper
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work there and in
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Glasgow and
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Edinburgh . In 1839 he helped to found the Spalding Club, organized to publish the
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historical, genealogical, topographical and literary remains of the north-eastern counties of Scotland, and he edited eight of its
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thirty-eight volumes . In 1853 he was appointed curator of the historical and antiquarian department of the General
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Register House, Edinburgh, hitherto a subordinate and unimportant office, but which, in his hands, became of the first consequence to the interests of antiquarian literature in Scotland . His inventory of the
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personal
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property and jewels of Mary Queen of Scots, prefaced by a paper of
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great learning and research, and his essays on Scottish architecture, preceded his greatest work, published by the 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 December 1866 .

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