Hercules James Robertson, Lord Benholme (13 October 1795 – 15 September 1874) was a Scottish judge. He became a Senator of the College of Justice in 1853.
Born in Edinburgh, he was the son of George Robertson – Scott and his wife Isabella Scott.[1]
Robertson was educated at the High School and then studied law at the University of Edinburgh.[1] He was called to the Scottish bar in 1817.[1] Robertson was Sheriff of Renfrewshire in 1842 and was appointed a Lord of Session assuming the judicial title Lord Benholme, after his mother's family seat.[2]
He lived with his family at 76 Great King Street, a very large Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh's Second New Town.[3]
He died in Edinburgh on 15 September 1874.
On 7 July 1829, he married Ann Wilhelmina Hope (died 1842), the daughter of Charles Hope, Lord Granton. They had four sons and two daughters.[4] [5]
His son David Robertson became a minister and married Eleanor Charlotte Dalrymple-Fergusson, daughter of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet of Kilkerran.[6]
His son George Robertson (1830–1896) became a civil engineer in charge of the expansion of Leith Docks. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and President of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts from 1866 to 1868.[7]
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