Thomas Atholl Robertson

Thomas Atholl Robertson (27 October 1874 – 14 December 1955) was a Scottish fine arts printer and publisher and Liberal politician.

Thomas Atholl Robertson was the eldest son of John Robertson of Snaigow, Dunkeld in rural Perthshire. He was educated locally, at Clunie School, Blairgowrie. He married twice; first in 1906 to Flora Campbell, eldest daughter of James Cummings, a dental surgeon. There were two sons and four daughters from the marriage. Flora Robertson died in 1943 and five years later Robertson married Agnes Christie, the daughter of James Paterson of Redgorton in Perthshire. In religion Robertson was a staunch Presbyterian and was an office bearer of the Presbyterian Church in Palmers Green near his London home. One of his relatives, Dr James Robertson of Whittinghame, East Lothian was Moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1909. Although he lived in London for much of his life, Robertson also had a home in Scotland, Dunvorlich, Ewanfield, Crieff in Perthshire.

Robertson was a member of a firm of fine art publishers in Glasgow. He began his career in the city and then undertook formal training in this field in Germany, extending his knowledge of the trade by travelling throughout Europe, Canada, the United States and the near east. Robertson also served for ten years in the Territorial Army in the Highland Light Infantry, City of Glasgow Regiment.

Robertson was always a committed Liberal even as a young man. He held a number of positions in the party over the years including being Chairman of the Political Committee of the National Liberal Club and Vice-Chairman of the London Liberal Federation. He took a particular interest in a number of traditional Liberal issues, including land reform and was in 1923 the President of the English League for Taxation of Land Values.

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