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WILLIAM BRUCE ROBERTSON (182o-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 407 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM BRUCE ROBERTSON (182o-1886)  , Scottish divine, was born at Greenhill, St Ninians,
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Stirlingshire, on the 24th of May 1820, and was educated at
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Glasgow University and at the
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Secession Theological Hall,
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Edinburgh, where he made the acquaintance of Thomas de Quincey, and on his recommendation went to Halle and studied under Tholuck . After travelling in Italy and
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Switzerland he was licensed to preach by the
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presbytery of Stirling and
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Falkirk in 1843, and was soon after ordained at the Secession (after 1847, the
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United Presbyterian) Church in
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Irvine,
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Ayrshire . In this charge he remained for 35 years, exercising from his pulpit a truly magnetic influence, not so discernible in his published sermons . From 1871 his
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health failed, in spite of several visits to Florence and the
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Riviera . He resigned his charge in 1878 and died at
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Bridge of Allan on the 27th of
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June 1886 . He wrote many
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hymns, among them a version of " Dies Irae "; several of them, together with letters, &c., are to be found in the
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Life by James Brown . A
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volume containing Robertson's lectures on Martin Luther and other subjects was published in 1892 .

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