Longtime Veteran of the Massachusetts Insurance coverage Business
Peter Thomson Robertson, who lived within the Auburndale village within the metropolis of Newton, MA for greater than 45 years together with his spouse Cathryn “Cathie” Seibert Robertson of 54 years (she died in Could 2023) handed away on Saturday, February 22, 2025. Peter is survived by his sister-in-law Victoria Robertson of the District of Columbia, his sister Margaret (Mardi) LaForce of Cincinnati, his sister Hope Robertson of Boulder, his brother George Robertson of Seattle, his brother-in-law Gordon Seibert of Holladay, Utah and his brother-in-law Richard LaForce of Cincinnati, his niece Celeste Marokus of Ashland, Oregon and lots of different nieces and nephews and quite a few nice nieces and grand-nephews. Peter’s older brothers Reuben B. Robertson, III and Daniel Huger Robertson pre-deceased him.
Peter grew up outdoors of Cincinnati, Ohio, the third son of Reuben B. Robertson, Jr. and Margaret (Peggy) Watkins Robertson. After highschool, Peter acquired a BA in historical past from the College of Virginia after which obtained a regulation faculty diploma from Boston Faculty Regulation Faculty. He spent the early years of his follow working as a basic counsel lawyer for Massachusetts regulatory businesses.
After leaving the state Division of Insurance coverage, Peter constructed an insurance coverage regulatory follow involving illustration of shoppers on sophisticated Massachusetts insurance coverage points. Peter additionally served as a director on a number of insurance coverage corporations, together with turning into a founding director of what has grow to be one of many largest medical malpractice insurance coverage corporations in the US.
Peter and Cathie enormously loved touring all through Europe and particularly in Central America and the Caribbean.
In recent times, they traveled throughout Belize, climbing and snorkeling in every single place within the nation. In addition they went throughout Italy, and so they spent quite a lot of time with their buddies the Franca and Beppino Burgissers at their villa in central Tuscany. Different favourite locations have been St. John within the U.S. Virgin Islands and Virgin Gorda within the British Virgin Islands.
Peter spent the final 5 years doing analysis and writing concerning the illustrious and completed lives and careers of his great-grandfather Peter G. Thomson (for whom he was named), his grandfather Reuben B. Robertson, Sr., who ran Champion Worldwide Firm’s operations in North Carolina for nearly 40 years and assumed the presidency of the corporate within the late Nineteen Forties, and Peter’s father Reuben B. Robertson, Jr., who succeeded his father in 1950. Peter’s father took off virtually two years as president of the household firm to function the Deputy Secretary of Protection underneath President Dwight Eisenhower between 1955 and 1957, earlier than resuming the function as Champion’s president till he was killed by a drunk driver in 1960. A lot of Peter’s items about his great-grandfather and his grandfather have been revealed within the Waynesville, North Carolina newspaper often called The Mountaineer. Peter thought of the various items about his illustrious relations and the various different tales he wrote about different household tales the spotlight of his profession.