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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 Roberton (1896–1996), New Zealand soldier, doctor and genealogist * 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 Sir Hugh Stevenson Roberton (23 February 18747 October 1952) was a Scottish composer and, as founder of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir, one of Britain's leading choral-masters in the first half of the 20th century. Life Roberton was born in Glasgow, ... (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 * Elizabeth 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] |
Roberton, South Lanarkshire
Roberton is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Origins The origins of the town of Roberton are intertwined with those of the Robertons of that Ilk, Earnock, Bedlay, and Lauchope. Black 1965 describes the etymology as literally 'the Town of Robert'. This Robert was brother of Lambin Asa, who was the progenitor of the Earls of Loddon and Lamington. Ritchie 1954, Reid 1928 and Grant 2007 assert the origins of Robert as a Flemish feudal vassal of Baldwin of Biggar. It is first mentioned in a charter by Wice of Wiston tything it to Malcolm IV ( Reid 1928). Grant dates ‘Robert, brother of Lambin’ as the first lord c.1157. Brother of Lambin Asa The Chartulary of Kelso gives Robert as the brother of Lambyn Asa who was the Laird of Lesmahagow. Lambyn appears to have held lands in and around Lesmahagow (the regal barony), including what became the barony of Lamington, alongside William Comyn at or around the time the grant of Lesmahagow was made to the Abbey of Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Roberton
James Roberton, Lord Bedlay (c. 1590 – May 1664) was a Scottish advocate and judge. He was born to Archibald Roberton of Stainhall, youngest son of John Roberton 9th Laird of Earnock, and Elizabeth Baillie, daughter of Robert Baillie of Jerviston.Earnock and its Early Proprietors, Hamilton Advertiser, n.d. July 1874 He inherited Bedlay Castle from his father, who bought it from James, the 8th Lord Boyd. He became Lord Bedlay upon the occasion of being raised to the judicial bench in 1661. Education Described as a man of great learning and integrity, Roberton matriculated at the University of Glasgow in March 1605 and graduated M.A. in 1609. Positions He was appointed Regent (Professor) of Philosophy and Humanity of the University of Glasgow in 1618. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Basil Wilkie Roberton
James Basil Wilkie Roberton (1896–1996) was a New Zealand soldier, medical doctor, historian and writer. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ... in 1896. References 1896 births 1996 deaths New Zealand writers {{NewZealand-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocesan School For Girls, Auckland
Diocesan School for Girls (Dio) is a private girls' school in Epsom, New Zealand, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand. It is consistently a top-achieving school nationally. The school is Anglican-based and was established in 1903. It caters to international students and has accommodation for 50 boarders at Innes House. The school elected to offer students the option of IB Diploma Programme, International Baccalaureate diplomas, as an alternative to the national National Certificate of Educational Achievement, NCEA qualification, from 2008. History Bishop Moore Richard Neligan first proposed the Diocesan School for Girls in October 1903. A subcommittee of the synod purchased land in November 1903, and the first class began on 27 May 1904 with twenty-five students and Mary Etheldred Pulling as headmistress. Neligan formally dedicated the school on 14 June 1904, and the school celebrates its birthday on this date. The founders were Auckland businessperson Stephen Cochrane, Dr Ernest Roberton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Roberton (1776)
John Roberton (1776 – 1840) was a Scottish physician and social reformer. A radical and fringe figure in the medical profession, he is best remembered for advocating the founding of a ''medical police'' to promote health and social welfare and for authoring a book that became the centre of a notorious legal case. Life Roberton was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, the eldest of four children to a modest family. By 1799 he was in Edinburgh attending medical lectures though he seems never to have graduated. He was admitted to the Royal Medical Society which suggests that he enjoyed the support of a patron. His early published scientific papers on blisters, catarrh and cantharides already suggest that he nurtured unconventional views. Though he seems to have practised under the supervision of a senior doctor until 1802, he then established himself independently as a general practitioner. He specialised in the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and was a single-minded a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Roberton (1797)
John Roberton (20 March 1797 – 24 August 1876) was a Scottish physician and social reformer. He was a pioneer of modern obstetrics and of evidence-based medicine, and influential in the intellectual life of Victorian Manchester. Life Roberton was born near Hamilton, Lanarkshire and educated for the medical profession at Glasgow and Edinburgh. He was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1817. He intended to be a ship's surgeon, and was on his way to the West Indies when he was wrecked on the Lancashire coast. While at Liverpool he was encouraged to take up his residence at Warrington. He became a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1822, and on 9 October 1823 married Mary (1794/5–1851), daughter of David Bellhouse.Mottram (2004) The couple subsequently moved to Manchester. He soon had an extensive general practice, and, on his appointment in 1827 to the post of surgeon to the Manchester Lying-in Hospital, turned his special attention t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh S
Hugh is the English-language variant of the masculine given name , itself the Old French variant of '' Hugo (name)">Hugo'', a short form of Continental Germanic Germanic name">given names beginning in the element "mind, spirit" (Old English ). The Germanic name is on record beginning in the 8th century, in variants ''Chugo, Hugo, Huc, Ucho, Ugu, Uogo, Ogo, Ougo,'' etc. The name's popularity in the Middle Ages ultimately derives from its use by Frankish nobility, beginning with Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris Hugh the Great (898–956). The Old French form was adopted into English from the Norman period (e.g. Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury d. 1098; Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, d. 1101). The spelling ''Hugh'' in English is from the Picard variant spelling '' Hughes'', where the orthography ''-gh-'' takes the role of ''-gu-'' in standard French, i.e. to express the phoneme /g/ as opposed to the affricate /ʒ/ taken by the grapheme ''g'' before fron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Roberton
Hugh Stevenson Roberton (18 December 1900 – 13 March 1987) was an Australian politician, farmer and journalist. A member of the Country Party, he served as Minister for Social Services in the Menzies government from 1956 to 1965. He later served as Ambassador to Ireland from 1965 to 1967. Early life Roberton was born on 18 December 1900 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was the fourth of six children born to Joan (née McGillivray) and Hugh Stevenson Roberton. His father, an undertaker by profession, was a prominent composer and was eventually knighted for his services to music. Roberton left school at a young age and worked in agriculture, undertaking further study at the West of Scotland Agricultural College. He was conscripted into the British Army in May 1918 and attached to the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, being discharged on the conclusion of World War I. After a brief period in South Africa, Roberton immigrated to Australia in 1922, settling in the Riverina, and began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dylan Roberton
Dylan Roberton (born 21 June 1991) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club, Fremantle and St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was selected with the 49th selection in the 2009 AFL Draft, 2009 AFL National Draft from the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup by . Playing career Career with Fremantle (2010–12) Roberton started the 2010 season playing for East Perth Football Club, East Perth in the West Australian Football League, WAFL and was named to make his AFL debut for Fremantle in the Round 6 Western Derby. In 2011 he was used as Fremantle's first ever substitute player in their opening round match against the Brisbane Lions, replacing Rhys Palmer in the third quarter. Career with St Kilda (2013–2021) At the end of the 2012 season, Roberton requested a trade from the Dockers to a Melbourne-based team. When a trade did not eventuate he was delisted by Fremantle and then invited to train with St Kild ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
