James Robb
d. 1767
While he died with a reputation for a harsh regime as Captain of the Edinburgh Tolbooth (see the elegy composed by James Wilson, alias Claudero, in 1767: Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, pp. 16-17), the editors of Prisoners of the '45 print a letter by Robb claiming compensation for 25 blankets provided to Jacobite prisoners--he "may have been the only Scottish jailer who supplied necessaries to sick prisoners out of his own pocket on the chance of being repaid; that he did so is, at least, worthy of record" (vol. 1, pp. 180-81).