Donald Struan Robertson

Donald Struan Robertson (28 June 1885 – 5 October 1961) was a classical scholar, particularly noted for his work on Apuleius, and for 22 years the Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge. He was the father of the classicist Charles Martin Robertson and the art historian Giles Henry Robertson, and the brother of the botanist Agnes Arber.

Life Robertson was born in London, the son of Agnes Lucy Turner, a descendant of Robert Chamberlain, a ceramicist, and Henry Robert Robertson, an artist. He received honorary degrees from the universities of Durham, Glasgow, and Athens. Robertson remarried in 1956, to Margaret Ann Carey, the widow of his Trinity colleague George Carey. while the other, Margaret Hills, became a suffragist organiser and the first woman to sit on Stroud Urban District Council.