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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Robertson    
First Name(s)  Charles    
Birth Year  1833    
Death Year  1898    
Entry  I.C.S : born at Aberdeen, Sep. 18, 1833 : son of Charles Robertson, ironmonger there : educated at the Grammar School, Marischal College and University, Aberdeen : M.A. with special honours, 1853 : taught in England : passed fifth in the first open competition for the I.C.S : went to the N.W.P. in 1856: became Junior Secretary to the N.W.P. Government, 1867, and Secretary to that Government and Oudh, 1877-82 : retired 1883-4, on account of his wife's health : served in Edinburgh : resumed his classical studies : became a leading spirit of the Hellenic Society under Blackie : founded, with £8,000, a Fellowship in Classics, Mental Science and Philosophy at Aberdeen University, in memory of his brother Professor George Croom Robertson, editor of Mind—a Fellowship designed to stimulate the higher study of the subjects named : died March 24, 1898.     
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