THE QUEEN AND HER FACTOR.
Dr Robertson, of Hopewell, who for a long series of years has held the appointment of commissioner on Her Majesty's estates on Dee-side, was on Nov. 3 entertaiaed to a dinner at Bal hirer, and" presented with a silver salver as a memento of respect and esteem of friends; and neighbours on the occasion of his retirement into private life. The Marquis of Huntly made the presentation, and Dr Robertson in the course of his reply, said : — " lam unwilling to take to myself the merit which Lord Huntly has been pleased to attribute to me during my public life. I have simply carried out tbe wishes of rbe illustrious lady whose servant I had the honour to be. I know, gentlemen, that the comfort and the welfare and the prosperity of her tenants formed the first wish of her heart when in this part of the country, and,, gentlemen, to her I think the honour is due. I but carried our, as I said, her wishes, and whenever an opportunity occurred, were I to bring forward an instance when a tenant's interest or a tenant's comforts were concerned, I had but to tell my story to her — for I had the honour and the privilege of at aU times being admitced to her presencewhen I had anything on business to unfold to her — and I found in that lady an earnest desire for the happiness and comfort of her tenants, arid this was thefirst object she had in view. To carry out these wishes to the best of mv endeavours is what 1 have endeavoured to do. But it is not only, gentlemen, with the Queen that I have had to do ; I have also at this time the honour of being* the servant of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and I can only pay the same tribute to him that f have endeavoured to do to Her Majesty. To him I have the privilege of access at all times, and I have had the honour of his confidence and friendship, and T can only repeat what I have said with regard to the Queen, that his first thoughts and commands to me have at all times been to deal liberally, and to look to the comfort of his tenantry " (Dr Robertson is son of Mr Robertson, watchmaker Blairgowrie).
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Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 188, 15 February 1878, Page 7
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