Commercial Interests
In the fullness of time after his marriage, Robertson obtained a partnership in Heywood's Bank, where his father-in-law was a partner.
In August 1845 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Grand Junction Railway and was also on the committee of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway. He was the first President of the Liverpool Financial Reform Association after it was instituted in Liverpool on 20 April 1848., a body which was noted as "the most persistent and single-minded free trade body England had ever known".
Robertson inherited his father's Liverpool firm after John Gladstone's death in 1851
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