In 1789, Robertson was presented by the dean and canons of Christ Church to the vicarage of Ravensthorpe, near Northampton, but his principal residence was still in Oxford.
It occurs in gravelly sand on rocky slopes, and is known only from two populations, one in the Fitzgerald River National Park, the other east of Ravensthorpe.
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Adenanthos glabrescens is a species of small shrub endemic to the Ravensthorpe area in southwest Western Australia.
In June 1835 he was presented as vicar by the dean and chapter of Christ Church to the living of Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire.
He was chairman of Marshall, Kaye and Marshall, a firm of woollen manufacturers based in Ravensthorpe.
Ravensthorpe Nickel Operations is a nickel mine and hydrometallurgical processing plant located 550 km south east of Perth, in the Ravensthorpe district of Western Australia.
More recently, there has been a large immigration of Iraqi-Kurds, Hungarians and Romas (Gypsies) into the area.
On 9 December 2009, BHP sold its Raventhorpe mine, on which it had spent A$2.4 billion to build, to Toronto-based First Quantum for US $340 million.