Family
In 1894 he married Mildred Palin, the daughter of Lt-Gen Charles Thomas Palin of the Indian army.
They had two daughters and two sons. His eldest son, Brian Hubert, succeeded to the baronetcy, rose to become a general in the British Army and was raised to the peerage as Baron Robertson of Oakridge in 1961.
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