John Argyll Robertson

[1] He was apprenticed to John Henry Wishart, a surgeon with an interest in eye conditions at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

The thesis is dedicated to John Wishart, his surgical master, who was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1820.

[3] In 1821 Roberson submitted his probationary essay, entitled "On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye", to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCSEd).

[9] He was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1848,[5] but retired after only one year in office being succeeded by James Syme.

[11] His elder son Charles, best known as C. Lockhart Robertson became an asylum doctor and Lord Chancellor's Visitor for Asylums,[12] whilst his younger son, Douglas Argyll Robertson, achieved eminence as an ophthalmic surgeon and, like his father, was president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.