OBITUARY NOTICE. 



Watson Askew Robertson, Esq., of Pallinsburn 

 and Ladykirk. 



By Commander F. M. Norman, R.N. 



Bv the lamented death, on 20tli November lOOfi, in his 

 seventy-third year, of the above-named f^'entleman, who was one 

 of the best known, most popular, and most highly respected 

 landed proprietors in Northumberland, our Club sustained a 

 much felt loss. He was elected a member in 1<S60, President 

 1890-1, and entertained the Club at Ladykirk during his 

 term of office. Beyond an Obituary Notice of Mrs George 

 Grey Butlei-, in Vol. xvii., and his Presidential Address, he 

 does not seem ever to have been a contributor to onr 

 Proceedings, though he took a warm interest in our doings. 



The deceased gentleman was the only son of the late 

 Captain Christopher C. Askew, B..N., of Broadbush, Hamp- 

 shire, and was educated at Eton and Oxfoid. He succeeded 

 to the Pallinsburn estate in 1851. 



In 1856 he married Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr David 

 Robei'tson, M.P., afterwards Baron Marjoribanks of Ladykirk ; 

 and when she succeeded to Ladykiik, Mr Watson Askew, by 

 royal licence, assumed tlie name and arms of Robertson. 



