William Charles Fleming Robertson

Sir William Charles Fleming Robertson KCMG (1867– 27 June 1937^[1]) was an acting governor of the Gold Coast in 1914, and a British colonial administrator, Governor of Barbados from 1925 to 1932.^[2]

Life

Robertson graduated B.A. at Trinity College, Dublin in 1889.^[3] He became inspector of schools in the Gold Coast in 1898.^[4] He took other posts there as his career developed.^[2] In 1914 he was acting governor of the Gold Coast.^[5]

In 1915 Robertson was transferred to Gibraltar, where he was Colonial Secretary; and he was moved in 1917 to Malta, serving to 1925 as Lieutenant Governor.^[2][6] There he warned against a rise in the bread price in 1919, ahead of riots.^[7]

Robertson died in Gibraltar.^[8]

Family

Robertson married in 1909 Elizabeth Dora Whelan, daughter of the Rev. Ernest Whelan, of Kilbride, County Wicklow.^[9][10] Robertson was survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.^[11] Lady Robertson lived in a Hampton Court Palace apartment from 1947 to 1974.^[6] Their daughter Beatrice May (died 2010 at age 93) married J. A. G. Gribble of the Lancashire Fusiliers.^[12][13]