Robert Kerr Hannay

Robert Kerr Hannay FRSE (31 December 1867, Glasgow – 19 March 1940, Edinburgh) was a Scottish historian. He served as Historiographer Royal of Scotland and Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh.^[1]

He collected and calendared the letters of both James 1V and James V,^[2] and wrote The Early History of the Scottish Signet. He is the grandfather of writer Alastair Hannay.

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