James Robertson (orientalist)

He did not remain at Cromarty, but, after graduating at Leyden on 20 January 1749, proceeded to Oxford to study under Thomas Hunt.

[2] Robertson was offered an post in Philip Doddridge's Northampton Academy; but the town council of Edinburgh, in response to its divinity students, elected him on 26 June 1751 as Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages in the University of Edinburgh.

He received the fees of students only, his predecessor William Dawson retaining the salary for life.

Infirm during the last few years of his life, Robertson died at Middlefield, Leith Walk, on 26 November 1795.

[2] He is buried in St Cuthberts Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street.