settled their boundary, and the neighbouring high ground was claimed by Lord Cornwallis as shewing the boundary to his property, and the intervening land between the two boundaries was thereupon appropriated by the Government, and thus it happens that to-day the Crown owns property on the Hastings Sea Front.
The reclaimed land was subsequently taken over on a building agreement by Mr. Patrick Francis Robertson, at that time a wealthy merchant in London, who afterwards became Member of Parliament for Hastings, whose portrait is here given. Mr. Robertson took the
Who gave the name to Robertson Street and Robertson Terrace, Hastings.
Mr. Patrick Francis Robertson, who will be remembered by many of the older inhabitants, was a man of fine presence. He first contested Hastings, as a Conservative in August, 1847, but was unsuccessful. In July, 1852, he was returned M.P. for Hastings at the top of the poll, with Mr. Musgrave Brisco In March, 1857, with Mr. Frederick North, he was returned without a contest. Again defeated in April, 1859 Again returned in 1864, and 1865. In -
