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The name Robert means "bright fame" and is of English origin.
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Robert Nesbitt (solicitor)
Robert Chancellor Nesbitt (17 November 1868 – 27 January 1944) was a distinguished solicitor in the City of London, and a Unionist politician and member of legal, financial and Church of England bodies in the early 20th century.
Nesbitt was born to Robert Henry Nesbitt, and Emma Chancellor.
As a youth, Nesbitt was a noted cyclist, riding with the Bath Road Club. His records included London to Bath and back, 16hr 10min, on 1 August 1891, and 155.5 miles on the North Roads in 12 hours, on 2 August 1890, as well as a podium finish in the 100 mile Bath Road Club road race.
Nesbitt became an advocate on the Shanghai Bar, and from 1909 to 1926 was a member of the Council of the Law Society.From 1920 to 1922 sat on the Lord Chancellor's Committee on Supreme Court Fees and on Circuit arrangements, and in 1921 he was chairman of the Special Training Grants Committee of the Ministry of Labour. He was also a director of the Union Bank of Australia, chairman of the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia, Board for Britain; and Deputy Chairman of the British Law Insurance Company.
Nesbitt was Member of Parliament for Chislehurst, Kent from 1922–24, and secretary of Nobody's Friends in the 1930s. He was a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, as had been his grandfather and other relatives.
Senior representative of the ancient Nisbet family of Berwickshire, Nesbitt wrote a classic family history, Nisbet of that Ilk. On 31 August 1895 he married Lilian Mary Ellis. They had one son, Robert Malleson Nesbitt.
Source: Robert Nesbitt (solicitor), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaRobert Nesbitt (theatre director)
Robert Nesbitt (11 January 1906 - 3 January 1995) was a theatre director, theatrical producer and impresario, particularly known for staging 25 instances of the Royal Variety Show.
Nesbitt was born on 11 January 1906 in London, England.
He was the Royal Variety Show's stage director in 1945, 1946, 1958 and 1961; and its producer from 1962 until 1976 and again in 1978. He staged and co-wrote the 1952 hit musical The Glorious Days starring Anna Neagle.
He once rejected an audition by Julie Andrews, but on the grounds of her age (she was only twelve at the time) rather than a deficiency of talent.
He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 27 January 1973.
He died on 3 January 1995.
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