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Name: ROBERTSON, Thomas Hogg
Birth Date: 8 June 1866 Dublin
Death Date: 11 July 1917 Dublin
First Date: 1909
Profession: BEA Corporation merchant; planter
Area: Malindi
Married: In Johannesburg 25 Mar 1902 Edith Jessie Northam b. 1873 Bristol, d. 9 June 1934 Dublin, nursing sister
Children: Dudley Francis (23 Jan 1903 Potchefstroom, S. Africa-7 Dec 1970 Dublin); James Guy (9 Nov 1904 Howth, Dublin-18 Dec 1985 Dublin); Dorothy Jan (Thompson) (9 Jan 1914 Southwark, London-29 Mar 2006 Dublin)
Book Reference: Drumkey, Law, North
War Service: Imperial Yeomanry in Boer War, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
General Information:
Law - Lawrence v Rex - July 1909 - ….. The facts shortly are that one Robertson the sub-manager for the British East Africa Corporation at Lamu had his suspicions aroused and intimated to the accused who was an accountant in his employ that he desired to check the cash of which the accused had charge. The keys of the safe were in the accused's possession. On Robertson going upstairs to count the cash he met the accused who said he was going downstairs for a moment Robertson watched the accused return to the house down an adjacent lane with rolls of rupees. The accused proceeded then to open the safe and place the rupees therein. …………
?In Royal Edinburgh Asylum in 1881?
Cambridge Independent Press 23 May 1902 T. Hogg Robertson is Director of Agric for Transvaal and Orange River Colony and Chief Inspector of Miltary Farms in both colonies which have been supplying the troops with produce and vegetables for 11 months. He is well known in Ireland and Cambridgeshire. His wife is from an old family in Gloucestershire.
Straits Times 11 Jan 1911 He was involved with the EA Rubber Plantation Co. - diffics with Labour supply