Peter Robertson

Peter Robertson ( – 13 July 1916) was a Presbyterian minister in Queensland, Australia. He was pastor of St Stephen's Church, Ipswich for 39 years.

History Robertson was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and studied for the ministry at Edinburgh, worked as home missionary in the city of Edinburgh and nearby Niddrie. Both were injured, Mrs Robertson seriously so, and was as a result confined to bed for a year and never fully recovered.

He was convener of the Queensland Church Property Committee for 20 years.

He was nominated moderator of the Brisbane Presbytery to replace Rev J. F. McSwaine in 1882 but declined the honour. but acceded for the year 1886–87

He was convener of the Foreign Missions Committee for Queensland in 1907, then Moderator-General of the Presbyterian Church of Australia 1907 –1909, succeeded by Rev. John Ferguson of Sydney.

He was a prominent Freemason, a member of the Caledonian Lodge, No. 456, S.C.

Around 1913 he visited England as the Australian delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian Council.

He retired in 1911 and was succeeded at St Stephen's by Rev. S. F. Hunter.

Family Robertson married Eliza Clark Innes (c. 1838 – 27 October 1904) of Yair, in Selkirkshire, Scotland, in 1863. They had two surviving children: Dr William Nathaniel Robertson (1866 – 12 June 1938) was a pathologist in Ireland, later Vice Chancellor of Brisbane University. He married Clara Pollard on 8 May 1924. Mary Robertson (21 August 1877 – ), married Thomas Horton Campbell on 12 April 1912, lived at Syntax Street, Ipswich.