Robertson & Baxter Ltd (scotch whisky blenders and merchants: 1894-: Glasgow, Scotland)

Robertson & Baxter, wine and spirit brokers, was founded in 1860 in Glasgow, Scotland, through a partnership between William Alexander Robertson and John W Baxter.

William Alexander Robertson was born in Fife, Scotland, in 1833 . He moved to Glasgow in his late teens, taking up work with Daniel Lade & Co, wine and spirit merchants. Daniel Lade amalgamated with Bulloch & Co, owners of Camlachie Distillery in the east end of Glasgow, to form the partnership of Bulloch Lade & Con in 1856, at which time Robertson decided to go into business for himself. He set up a partnership with Robert Thomson as Robertson & Thomson, at 162 Hope Street, Glasgow, as a commission agent in 1857 . As wine and spirit wholesalers they accepted the agency for the Greenock Distillery Co, Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, and in 1858 they moved from Hope Street to Virginia Street, Glasgow. Later that year they began importing wine from Bordeaux, France.

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