Robert Cullen, Lord Cullen

He played a key role, along with his father William Cullen, in obtaining a royal charter for the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, resulting in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783.

[1] Born on 22 September 1742 in Hamilton, the son of Anne Johnstone (d.1786) and eminent physician and chemist William Cullen, the family moved to live in the old mint in Edinburgh when his father received a position at the University of Edinburgh.

The family lived at South Grays Close on the Canongate, home of the old Scottish Mint.

[5] He lived his final years at Argyll Square[6] in south Edinburgh and died on 28 November 1810 and was buried alongside his father in Kirknewton churchyard, south-west of Edinburgh.

She remarried after Cullen's death and died in the West Indies in 1818.