Archibald Robertson (29 June 1853 – 29 January 1931)[2] was the seventh Principal of King's College London who later served as Bishop of Exeter.

[3] He was born at Sywell rectory, Northamptonshire, the eldest son of George Samuel Robertson, curate of Sywell, (1825–1874) and his wife, Helen née Kerr, and grandson of Archibald Robertson and William Charles Kerr junior, both physicians of Northampton.

[10] In his academic career, Robertson was a specialist in patristics and church history, in which field he was widely published and respected.

[13] He served as diocesan bishop until 1916,[2] when he resigned due to ill health, retiring to Oxford, where he died at home in 1931.

An especial mention was made of the Rector of Dartington, 5 of whose 7 sons were in the army, the sixth had been in the Royal Navy and the youngest was still at school but in the Officers Training Corps.