Biography of Robert Blackie Aikman

Robert Blackie Aikman attended the University for a year in 1908 to study Mercantile Law.

He was born in Belize, then British Honduras, on 11 June 1882, son of William George Aikman, a general merchant and commission agent.

Aikman was educated at Glenalmond College, Perthshire, and graduated BA from Clare College, Cambridge in 1905. While attending the University of Glasgow, Aikman gave both his home and term address as 12 Kingsborough Gardens, Kelvinside, Glasgow.

Aikman worked as a merchant and insurance broker. With the outbreak of the First World War, he served as a Private, of the Queen's Own Royal Glasgow (QORG) Yeomanry in 1915, and was ranked 2nd Lieutenant of the Lanarkshire Yeomanry (Territorial Forces) on 16 February 1915. He retired due to ill-health, from neuritis caused by exposure during training in Scotland, in 1916. He went to South Africa to farm, where he died near Clocolan, Orange Free State, on 11 November 1918.

Sources

Other Online Resources

• E W King, A Postal History of Belize, p.32
• The British War Forum, British school registers and rolls of honor

Archival Materials

• University of Glasgow Archives Overseas Database

Summary

Robert Blackie Aikman
Born 11 June 1882.
Died 11 November 1918.
GU Degree: Social Sciences, 1908;
University Link: Student
English snippet: Law student at the University of Glasgow in 1908
Record last updated: 2nd Oct 2013

Country Associations

Belize, No Region
Place of Birth

South Africa, Free State
Place of Death

England, Cambridge

Scotland, Glasgow

University Connections

University Roles

• Student