Robin is a former Lord Lyon King of Arms of Scotland (2001-2008) and is a retired solicitor, having been a senior partner with Dundas & Wilson and then Turcan Connell. From 1988 to 2001 he also held the role of the Purse Bearer to the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. He remains a member of the Royal Company of Archers (the King’s Bodyguard in Scotland).

He became involved with Scotland’s Churches Scheme in its early days and became chair of its trustees in 1996. He was still chair at the time of the Scheme’s merger with the Scottish Architectural Heritage Trust in 2012, forming Scotland’s Churches Trust, becoming the chairperson of the new combined entity, in which role he remained until 2015.

In 2017, following the death of Lady Marion Fraser, Robin became our Honorary President, in which role he chairs our Annual General Meetings.