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Robert Herbert Story - LoveToKnow 1911 (272 words) |
 | ROBERT HERBERT STORY (1835-1907), Scottish divine, principal of Glasgow University, was born on the 28th of January 1835 at Rosneath, Dumbartonshire. |
| He was characterized by an absolutely fearless honesty, which sometimes gave offence, but at the basis of his nature there was a warm, tender and sympathetic heart, incapable of meanness or intrigue. |
| In addition to lives of his father (1862), Professor Robert Lee (1870) and William Carstares (1876), he published a devotional book Christ the Consoler; a volume of sermons, Creed and Conduct (1878); The Apostolic Ministry in the Scottish Church (Baird Lecture, 1897), and several pamphlets on church questions. |
| Social History of Art Symposium Honors Robert Herbert (285 words) |
| Herbert's work, which grew from a theoretical approach imbedded in Marxism, led to the social history of art that has since come to include feminist art history. |
| Herbert attended the assembly with his wife Fi, who retired this year from MHC's history department. |
| She ended with a few heartfelt sentences on the role that Herbert played in her personal and scholastic pursuits, a refrain that marked many of the day's presentations. |
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