Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie
Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie FRSE (1834-1894) was a Scottish landowner, landscape photographer and arboriculturalist. He was President of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society 1864 to 1871.
Life
His father was Thomas Hutchison (1796-1852), Provost of Leith and a well-known wine merchant. His mother was Jean (or Jane) Wylie (d.1889). Robert followed in his father’s footsteps, involved in the wine trade in Leith,[1] and inherited the business in 1852 on his father’s death (aged only 18).
In 1864 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being William Stevenson.[2] In 1880 he was one of the five founders of Craiglockhart Church.[3]
He died in Brodick on the Isle of Arran on 25 February 1894.
Family
In 1863 he married Mary Jemima Tait daughter of Rev Adam Duncan Tait. They had eight children.[4] These included Sir Thomas Hutchison, 1st Baronet (1866-1925) and Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet (1871-1960).[5]
His niece was Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
References
- ↑ http://www.hharp.org/library/gosh/doctors/robert-hutchison.html
- ↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
- ↑ http://www.craiglockhartchurch.org/church/the-history-of-craiglockhart
- ↑ http://digital.nls.uk/histories-of-scottish-families/pageturner.cfm?id=95568153&mode=transcription
- ↑ http://www.thepeerage.com/p32498.htm#i324973