Robert S. Rait

Sir Robert Sangster Rait (1874–1936) was a Scottish historian. Educated at Aberdeen and Oxford, he became a fellow of New College, Oxford, and in 1913 professor of Scottish history and literature at the University of Glasgow, where he later served as principal and vice-chancellor. He was appointed Historiographer Royal for Scotland in 1919. His books include The Scottish Parliament, Mary Queen of Scots, Life in the Medieval University and, with others, histories of Scotland and of the Anglo-Scottish union. He was knighted in 1933.