Robertson
Robertson names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Robertson JAMES BURTON, an English historian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES BURTON, an English historian; born in London, England, Nov. 15, 1800 ; studied literature, philosophy, and the elements of dogmatic theology, in France ; and after various preliminary essays published a translation of Frederick Schlegel's "Philosophy of History" (1835) which passed through many editions. His second translation, "Symbolism, or Exposition of Doctrinal Differences between Catholics and Protestants" (1843), was also widely read in both England and America and created a profound impression. His original writings include: " Public Lectures on Some Subjects of Ancient and Modern History" (1859); "Lectures Subjects of Modern History and Biography" (1864); and many others. He on Some died in Dublin, Feb. 14, 1877. antiquary; born in Aberdeen, May 17, ROBERTSON , JOSEPH, a 1810, was educated at Udny Academy, Scottish and the grammar school and Marischal College of his native city. An Episcopalian and Conservative , ticed to a lawyer, but took early to writing, and, after six years of literary work ve, he was apprenat Edinburgh was a newspaper editor at Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Edinburgh from 1839 to 1853. He was in that year appointed curator of the historical department of the Edinburgh Register House. He was an originator of the Aberdeen Spalding Club (1839-1870) for which he edited eight works. Of his other Accord, or a Guide to the City of Aberworks may be noticed "The Book of Bon- Dresses , Books, and Paintings of Mary, deen" (1839), "Catalogues the Jewels, Queen of Scots" (Bannatyne Club, 1863), the invaluable "Concilia Scotiæ: Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ Statuta, 1225-1559" "Quarterly Review" for June, 1849, on (1866), and an admirable article in the "Scottish Abbeys and Cathedrals." He died Dec. 13, 1866.
Robertson FREDERICK WILL- IAM, an English preacher
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FREDERICK WILL- IAM, an English preacher; born in London , Feb. 3, 1816. He attended the grambecame a pupil of the Edinburgh Acadschool of Beverley, in 1830 emy, and afterward attended the university of that city. Failing to obtain a commission in the army, he matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford , in 1837, with a view to enter the Church. He was ordained in 1840, and took priest's orders a year later. He then went abroad, and at Geneva married the daughter of Sir George William Denys. From 1842 to 1846 he was curate at Christ Church, Cheltenham. He became incumbent Trinity Chapel, Brighton, in 1847; and ent continued in this charge with increasing fame as a preacher till his death. His views on the Sabbath, the atonement, baptism, and inspiration were assailed as unorthodox, and he was accused of preach ing democracy and socialism. His published works embrace "Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics" (8vo, London, 1858 ), "Analysis of Tenny- Memoriam" (1862), and sermons and lectures . He died in Brighton, August 15, 1853.
Robertson ARCHIBALD THOS., an American Baptist theologian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARCHIBALD THOS., an American Baptist theologian, born near Chatham, Va., in 1863. He was educated at Wake Forest (N. C.) College, and at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. In 1888 he was assistant instructor of New Testament interpretation; in 1892 professor of Biblical Introduction; and since 1895 professor of New Testament interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. In 1904 he became business manager of the " Review and Expositor." He wrote "Life and Letters of John A. Broadus " (1900); "Syllabus for New Testament Study" (1903); "The Students' Chronological New Testament" (1904); “Keywords in the Teaching of Jesus" (1905); " Epochs in the Life of Jesus" (1908); "Commentary on Matthew" (1910); "John the Loyal" (1911); "The Glory of the Ministry" (1911); "Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research" (1914); "Studies in New Testament" (1915); "Training for Citizenship" (1918). His "Short Grammar of Greek New Testament" (1908) was translated into the Italian, German, French, and Dutch languages. He also contributed to many biblical dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Robertson SIR WILLIAM (ROBwas born at Welbourne
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR WILLIAM (ROBwas born at Welbourne, Lincolnshire, England, in 1860 and was educated privately. In 1888 he became a lieutenant in the 3rd Dragoon Guards , and in 1891 was railway transport officer in the Miranzai and Black Mountain Expeditions. In 1892-96 he was Staff Captain and D. A. Q. M. G., Intelligence Branch, Simla, and in 1895, Intelligence Officer, Headquarters, Chitral Relief Force, where he was severely wounded. He was in the South Director of Military Operations in the African War in 1900 and was Assistant War Office, 1901-7. In 1907 he was A. Q. M. G. at Aldershot and in 1910-13, Com- 1 mandant, Staff College. In 1913-14 he was Director of Military Training at the War Office. In the World War he com- GENERAL SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON manded the 1st Infantry Division and Chief of General Staff 1915-18, General Officer, Commander-in-Chief in-Chief Eastern Command, 1918, Great Britain, 1918-19.
Robertson THOMAS American economist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS American economist, born in Alamance M., an school. From 1893 to 1895 he was a memco., N. C., in 1857. Until 1887 he taught ber of the N. C. house of representatives; from 1895 to 1897 he was connected with the United States Treasury Department, ment of Labor. From 1904 to 1915 he was and from 1897 to 1903 with the Departspecial examiner in the Bureau of Corporations, in charge of investigations of water power, cotton and lumber. From mist and a member of the Joint Board of Review of the Federal Trade Commission, becoming in 1917 chief economist. 1915 to 1917 he was assistant chief econo- ERT), a British military officer. He
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote all five of these entries in 1921, and the three long-dead Robertsons — the translator James Burton Robertson (d. 1877), the Aberdeen antiquary Joseph Robertson (d. 1866) and the Brighton preacher Frederick William Robertson (d. 1853) — stand as written, though F. W. Robertson's sermons, once "assailed as unorthodox," are now read chiefly as period documents of Victorian liberal preaching rather than as living controversy. The two men still alive when the volume went to press have since finished their careers: Sir William Robertson, whose entry stops at his 1918-19 Great Britain command, was made a field marshal in 1920 — the only British soldier ever to rise from private to that rank — and died in 1933. Archibald Thomas Robertson taught at Louisville until his death in 1934, and his 1914 "Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research," listed here as just another title, is still in print and still cited by New Testament scholars more than a century on.
Written for this edition, 2026.