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Biography
Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie FRSE (1834-1894) was a Scottish landowner, landscape photographer and arboriculturalist. He was President of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society 1864 to 1871.
Life
His father was Thomas Hutchison (1796-1852), Provost of Leith and a well-known wine merchant. His mother was Jean (or Jane) Wylie (d.1889). Robert followed in his father’s footsteps, involved in the wine trade in Leith, and inherited the business in 1852 on his father’s death (aged only 18).
In 1864 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being William Stevenson. In 1880 he was one of the five founders of Craiglockhart Church.
He died in Brodick on the Isle of Arran on 25 February 1894.
Family
In 1863 he married Mary Jemima Tait daughter of Rev Adam Duncan Tait. They had eight children. These included Sir Thomas Hutchison, 1st Baronet (1866-1925) and Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet (1871-1960).
His niece was Isobel Wylie Hutchison.