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Roberton (other)
Roberton may refer to: Places *Roberton, Scottish Borders, Scotland *Roberton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland People *James Roberton, Lord Bedlay, Scottish advocate and judge *James Basil Wilkie Roberton, James Roberton (1896–1996), New Zealand soldier, doctor and genealogist *Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland#History, Dr Ernest Roberton, one of the founders of the Diocesan school for girls, Auckland *John Roberton (1776) (1776–1840), Physician and social reformer *John Roberton (1797) (1797–1876), Obstetrician and social reformer *Hugh S. Roberton (1874–1952), Scottish composer and founder of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir; *Hugh Roberton (1900–1987), Hugh's son, Australian MP and foundation member for the National Party of Australia *Dylan Roberton (born 1991), AFL player *Wiremu Kingi Maketu#The murders on Motuarohia island, Elizabeth Roberton, a European settler on Motuarohia Island whose murder was the subject of the trial of Wiremu Kingi Maketu *Thomas Beattie Roberto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberton, Scottish Borders
Roberton is a small village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the B711 and near to the A7, from Hawick, from Galashiels, and from Langholm. It is situated by the Ale Water, the Alemoor Loch and the Borthwick Water, and nearby are Branxholme, Broadhaugh, Burnfoot and the Craik Forest. Borders poet The Borders poet Will H. Ogilvie (1869–1963) was born in Kelso and died in nearby Ashkirk. A cairn has been erected in his memory. :The hill road to Roberton's a steep road to climb, But where your foot has crushed it, you can smell the scented thyme, And if your heart's a Border heart, look down to Harden Glen, And hear the blue hills ringing with the restless hoofs again... Unveiled in August 1993, an identical cairn was also erected in Bourke, New South Wales. The bronze was prised from the surface and stolen in August 2016 for metal theft. One of Ogilvie's 800+ poems included the six stanza ''The road to Roberton'': :The hill road to Roberton: Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |