James Robertson (moderator)

James Robertson FRSE (1803–1860) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

He was born on 2 January 1803 at Ardlaw Farm near Old Pitsligo in Aberdeenshire, the son of Barbara Anderson and her husband, William Robertson, farmer.

[1] In 1841 Robertson was the first person in Britain to use bone meal as a fertilizer, this being done at Ellon (probably on the church glebe).

During his professorship he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly for the period 1857–1858, being succeeded by Very Rev Matthew Leishman.

[2] Robertson died at home, 25 Ainslie Place[3] in Edinburgh's West End on 2 December 1860.