James Craigie Robertson was born in Aberdeen in 1813 and died in Canterbury July 9, 1882. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1834; M.A., 1838); was vicar of Beckesbourne, near Canterbury, 1846-59; canon of Canterbury, 1859-82; and professor of ecclesiastical history, Kings College, London, 1864-74.
His historical works are of high rank. He wrote How Shall we Conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England? (London, 1843); History of the Christian Church to the reformation (4 vols., 1854-73); Sketches of Church History (1855-78); Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury(1859) and Plain Lectures on the Growth of the Papal Power (1776).