William Robertson (statistician)

Dr William Robertson FRSE FRCPE (8 January 1818 – 25 August 1882) was a 19th-century Scottish physician remembered as a statistician and amateur photographer.

His younger brother, George Brown Robertson (1819–1873), assisted his father as Deputy Keeper of Records.

[2] In 1854 he volunteered to give his medical services as part of the Crimean War, serving at Renkioi Hospital.

[4] In 1871 he replaced James Stark (1811–1890) as Superintendent of Statistics at General Register House in Edinburgh on a salary of £450 a year.

He lived his entire life at 28 Albany Street[6] and he died there of heart disease on 25 August 1882 aged 64.