Thomas Herbert Robertson
Politician
1849 – 1916
Who was Thomas Herbert Robertson?
Herbert Robertson was a British barrister and Conservative politician.
He was the only son of Thomas Storm Robertson, a physician and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Following education at Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1872, he studied law. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1878.
In 1880 he married Helen Alexandria Melian Durdin, co-heiress of Alexander Durdin of Huntington Castle, County Carlow, Ireland. The couple divided their time between the Irish estate and their London home "The Cedars", South Hackney. They were well known for their philanthropic works in the Hackney area.
In 1892 a general election was called, and Robertson was selected as Conservative candidate to contest the Hackney South constituency. He failed to unseat the sitting Liberal member of parliament and cabinet minister, Sir Charles Russell. Russell was elevated to the House of Lords in 1894, and Robertson was again Conservative candidate at the ensuing by-election. He narrowly failed to win the seat, reducing the Liberal majority to 192 votes.
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- Born
- Apr 26, 1849
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Magdalen College, Oxford
- Died
- Jul 11, 1916
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on July 23, 2013
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