page_title: Walter W. Robertson
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Walter W. Robertson / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Dundee Post Office
context_page_description: Walter Wood Robertson was a 19th-century Scottish architect. From 1877 he was Principal Architect and Surveyor for Scotland for public buildings, specialising in large urban post offices.
context_section_description: He was born Walter Wybrown Robertson in Elie in Fife in 1845 the son of James Robertson, a weaver, and his wife Ann Nelson. In 1858 he was articled as an architect to John Chesser in Edinburgh. He also undertook studies in architecture at Edinburgh College of Art. In 1863 he moved briefly to the offices of Peddie & Kinnear before returning to John Chesser for two further years. From 1866 to 1868 he worked under Brown & Wardrop then after two years in Manchester with J. Holden & Son then Speakman & Charlesworth, also undertaking further studies in Manchester at Owens College.
  In 1871 he moved to HM Office of Works in London under Sir Douglas Galton. He was President of the Lodon Architectural Association 1876/77. In 1877 Sir John Taylor appointed him Principal Architect and Surveyor for Scotland, following the death of Robert Matheson.
  He retired in 1904 and was replaced by William Thomas Oldrieve.
  He had a stroke on 1 April 1907 and died at Wardie Bank in Trinity, Edinburgh on 23 April 1907.
caption: Dundee Post Office
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