Office: | Minister of Trade |
Term Start: | 5 March 1926 |
Term End: | 28 January 1928 |
Primeminister: | Ivar Lykke |
Predecessor: | Lars Olai Meling |
Successor: | Anton Ludvig Alvestad |
Office2: | Mayor of Hammerfest |
Term Start2: | 1 January 1924 |
Term End2: | 31 December 1925 |
Predecessor2: | Sigurd M. Eriksen |
Successor2: | Sigurd M. Eriksen |
Birth Date: | 23 August 1875 |
Birth Place: | Fuglenes, Hammerfest, Sweden-Norway[1] |
Spouse: | Gudrun Brandt-Rantzau |
Parents: | Nicolai George Robertson Anna Albrethson |
Children: | 4 |
Party: | Conservative |
Charles Robertson (1875 - 1958) was the Norwegian Minister of Trade 1926 - 1928 and part of Lykke's Cabinet.[2]
He was the son of merchant Nicolai George Robertson and his wife Anna Albrethson. His father's family came from Scotland to Hammerfest with his grandfather Charles Robertson the Elder in 1827. The family business G. Robertson traded in salted fish, stockfish, shark fishing and seal hunting. They had a number of branches and fishing villages along the Finnmark coast.[3]
On 24 May 1899 he married his cousin Gudrun Brandt-Rantzau, daughter of district physician Johannes Brandt-Rantzau and Nicoline Cecilie Mathea Robertson.[4] His sister Anna Robertson married Attorney General and later Minister of State Andreas Urbye. His niece Gudrun Martius, married the diplomat Johan Georg Alexius Ræder.
Charles Robertson had four children: George Robertson (born 1900), Dorohea Robertson (born 1904), Ole Robertson (born 1905) and Charles Robertson (born 1911).[5]
Charlesbreen, a glacier in Svalbard is named after him.[6]
On his father's side Charles is a descendant of many Scottish clan chiefs, lairds, earls, (and other Scottish nobility) such as Sir John Maclean, 4th Baronet of Duart and Morvern, Colin Cam Mackenzie, 11th Laird of Kintail and William Graham, 3rd Earl of Menteith. James II of Scotland is Charles' 13×-great-grandfather. On his mother's side he is a descendant of Jens Holmboe and a part of the Holmboe family.[7]