James Alexander Robertson, 1880 - 1955, United Free Church of Scotland minister, Professor of Biblical Criticism, University of Aberdeen, author

James Alexander Robertson, son of Rev. Alexander Robertson, Free Church minister, was born in Ardersier in 1880. He attended school in Inverness and took his first degree in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, graduating MA, 1902. He went on to study Divinity at the United Free Church College in Glasgow, and subsequently became a minister of the United Free Church. After holding several charges at Glenlyon, Forfar, Edinburgh and Ballater, in 1920 he was appointed Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology at the United Free Church College in Aberdeen (later, Christ's College, Church of Scotland). In 1938 he became Professor of Biblical Criticism at the University of Aberdeen, where he remained until ill health forced his retirement in 1945.

James Robertson wrote several scholarly works on the New Testament, which were well received by reviewer and colleagues alike. The best known of these are The Hidden Romance of the New Testament (1920) and The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Jesus (1917). He was, by all accounts, a powerful and erudite preacher, and this collection contains a number of his prayers.

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