Robert Tuite Boothby
{{Short description|British banker}}
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Sir Robert Tuite Boothby KBE (29 June 1871 – 7 February 1941) was a British banker.{{Cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp83635|title=National Portrait Gallery}}
Career
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He was born in St Andrews in Fife, the son of Col Robert Tod Boothby of the Royal Artillery, and his wife Madeline Condie.
Boothby studied at the University of St Andrews.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WV-TM0HNgeoC&dq=%22Robert+Tuite+Boothby%22&pg=PA348|title=Seekers of Truth: The Scottish Founders of Modern Public Accountancy|first1=Gary J.|last1=Previts|first2=Robert|last2=Bricker|date=April 12, 2006|publisher=Emerald Group Publishing|isbn=9780762312986|via=Google Books}} He was the manager of the Scottish Provident Institution from 1920 to 1940, and a director of the Bank of Scotland. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1929,{{London Gazette|issue=33472|date=11 June 1919|page=1440 |supp=y }} and was also a member of the Royal Company of Archers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/3638772_221d-order-of-the-british-empire|title=221D: Order of the British Empire - May 30, 2007 | Bloomsbury Auctions in United Kingdom|website=LiveAuctioneers}}
He lived in Beechwood House in Corstorphine, previously the home of Sir Alexander Asher.
He is buried with his wife in Corstorphine churchyard in Edinburgh immediately east of the church.
Family
His brother-in-law was James Graham Watson, his predecessor at Scottish Life.
He married Mabel Lancaster, daughter of Henry Hill Lancaster, on 27 September 1898. They had one son, Robert Boothby, born in 1900.
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Category:Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Category:Directors of the Bank of Scotland
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire