Laurence Robertson

Client

The son of a banker, Laurence (or Lawrence) Robertson (c. 1831–1894) was a prosperous chartered accountant and stockbroker with the Glasgow firm of L. & R. H. Robertson, 58 St Vincent Street. From 1874 he split his time between two affluent residential addresses: 4 Park Circus, Glasgow, and Morland, a large house on the Ayrshire coast at Skelmorlie, which John Honeyman extended for him. 1 As Chairman, he presented the Glasgow Stock Exchange with a bust of Queen Victoria by Horace Montford in 1887, to mark the Golden Jubilee. 2 He died at Morland on 31 December 1894, aged 63. 3

Notes:

1: Glasgow Post Office Directory, 1874–5.

2: Glasgow Herald, 21 June 1887, p. 5.

3: The Times, 4 January 1894, p. 1.

'Mackintosh Architecture' led by The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; with additional support from The Monument Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and collaborative input from Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.