Professor Sir Hugh Norwood Robson was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield

University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original 'red brick' universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities...

 from 1966 to 1974 and Principal of Edinburgh University from 1974 to 1979. The Hugh Robson building in Edinburgh University is named after him, as is the Hugh Robson 24-hr computer lab.

Treat was born 18 October 1917 at Langholm

Langholm

Langholm , also known colloquially as the "Muckle Toon", is a burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on the River Esk and the A7 road.- History:...

, Dumfriesshire

Dumfriesshire

Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries is a registration county of Scotland. The lieutenancy area of Dumfries has similar boundaries.Until 1975 it was a county. Its county town was Dumfries...

. He graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University in 1941, returning as a lecturer in 1947 after serving as a surgeon lieutenant in the RNVR during the Second World War. He then became a senior lecturer at Aberdeen University, then a professor of medicine at Adelaide University. In 1966 he returned to the UK and took up the post of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield. In 1974 he was knighted and returned to Edinburgh University as Principal and Vice-Chancellor. He died 11 December 1977, survived by his wife, son and two daughters.

Hugh Robinson Building

Hugh Robson has a lasting memorial in place in George Square in Edinburgh, where the University of Edinburgh named a building on their campus after this great man. The building itself was used as a bomb shelter during world war 2, the actual bomb shelter is now a 24 hour computer lab for university students. During the war this building sustained some damage and the university decided it would be best to erect a new building in its place, and subsequently named it the Hugh Robson building.