Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie

Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie FRSE (1834-25 February1894) was a Scottish landowner, landscape photographer and arboriculturalist. He was President of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society 1864 to 1871. Life Hutchison's mother was Jean (or Jane) Wylie (d.1889) and his father was Thomas Hutchison (1796-1852), Provost of Leith and a well-known wine merchant. He followed his father into the wine trade in Leith, and inherited the family business in 1852, at the age of 18, on his father’s death. His father had commissioned the building of Carlowrie Castle, near Kirkliston, from the Edinburgh architect David Bryce. The project was inherited by Hutchinson, and completed in 1855.