Robert Stephen Rintoul bill". After publishing and managing the affairs of "The Spectator" for more than thirty years, he sold it shortly before his death. Robert Stephen Rintoul Robert Stephen Rintoul (1787 – 22 April 1858) was a British journalist. He was born at Tibbermore, Perthshire, in 1787, and educated at the Aberdalgie parish school. After serving his apprenticeship to the printing trade he became the printer and subsequently the editor of the "Dundee Advertiser". In 1826 he went to London where he was editor of "The Atlas" before, in July 1828 with the assistance of friends, founding "The Spectator". In this publication
Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul is held by the National Museum of Scotland. She also donated an unusual collection of Scottish basketry to the Museum. All these works were co-written with E. V. Baxter Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul FRSE (1878-1953) was a Scottish ornithologist and rare female member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In authorship she is known as L. J. Rintoul and is closesly associated with her friend and co-author E. V. Baxter. She was born on 2 February 1878 at Lahill in Largo, Fife. She was the daughter of Major Robert Rintoul and his wife Margaret Jeffrey, daughter of John