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GB-2014-WSA-14830 · Person · 1866-1929

ROBINSON, FRANCIS ARTHUR CLAYTON, son of Rev. Charles Edward Ricketts Robinson, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Milton near Gravesend, Kent, and Elizabeth, eldest dau. of John Wood, Droylsden, Lancs.; b. 21 Apr 1866; adm. 22 Jan 1880 (H); left Mich. 1880; went to Rossall Sch.; Pembroke Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1885; BA 1889; ordained 1892; Curate. Alverthorpe, Yorks., 1892-4; held other appointments; Curate, Eyton, Herefs., 1910-4; m.; d. 26 Dec 1929.

GB-2014-WSA-14826 · Person · 1916-1970

Robinson, Andrew Patrick Rex, son of Andrew Bowring Crispin Robinson (qv); b. 26 Sept. 1916; adm. May 1930 (H); left July 1936; Keble Coll. Oxf., matric. 1936; Roy. Berks Regt 1940, transf. RIASC (Capt); Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.; m. 26 Aug. 1940 Dagmar Violet, d. of R. A. Rolfe of Maida Vale; d. 4 July 1970.

GB-2014-WSA-14825 · Person · 1879-?

Robinson, Andrew Bowring Crispin, son of the Rev. Andrew Douglas Johnstone Robinson, Rector of Colby, Norfolk, by Sara Elizabeth, daughter of John Poole Bowring, of Combe Royal, Kingsbridge, Devon; b. Oct. 25, 1879; adm. Sept. 28, 1893 (H); left Dec. 1897; Ely Theol. Coll.; ordained 1902; Curate of St. James's, Hampstead Road, London, 1902-9, of St. John's, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, 1909-13; Asst. Chaplain, St. Mary's Home, Wantage, Berks, 1914-5; Vicar of St. Mary's, Haxton, 1916-22, of Potter's Bar, Middlesex, 1922; m. July 28, 1914, Ella, daughter of George Welsford, of Chalford, Glos.

GB-2014-WSA-14816 · Person · 1880-1942

Robertson-Scott, Charles Arthur, son of Major-Gen. Sir Charles Henry Scott, K.C.B., of Wadhurst, Sussex, by Frances Catherine, daughter of Gen. John Gustavus Halliday, Madras Infantry; b. Sept. 14, 1880; adm. Sept. 22, 1892 (H); left July 1894; H.M.S. Britannia; Naval Cadet July 15, 1894; Midshipman July 15, 1896; Sub-Lieut. Jan. 15, 1900; Lieut. Aug. 31, 1901; Commander June 30, 1914; Capt. June 30, 1920; served in the North Sea and with the Dover Patrol in Great War I; Rear-Admiral and placed on the retired list Oct. 12, 1932; assumed the additional surname of Robertson; m. March 12, 1910, Olive Eleanor, daughter of Walter Edward Archer, C.B., of Chelsea; d. Feb., 1942.

GB-2014-WSA-14815 · Person · 1894-1955

Robertson, William Strowan Amherst, son of William Robertson, of Ealing, by Lucy Anne, daughter of Charles Thomas Amherst, of Ealing; b. Oct. 16, 1894; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (H); left July 1913; Queen's Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1913; B.A. 1916; Winchester Reading Prize 1916; Lecturer, St. Paul's Coll., Calcutta, 1916-9; ordained deacon 1921, priest 1922 (Newcastle); Curate of St. George's, Cullercoats, Northumberland, 1921-4; assist. secretary, Student Christian Movement, 1924; mission priest at Poona 1928-30 Vicar of St. Ives, Hunts 1931-7; examining chaplain to the Bishop of Worcester 1941; Chaplain of the Friary of St. Francis, Cerne Abbas, Dorset, 1945-51; Warden of the Brotherhood of Holy Cross, Peckham, 1951-55; Guardian of the Society of St. Francis; d. Nov. 23, 1955.

GB-2014-WSA-14813 · Person · 1871-1937

Robertson, William Alexander, eldest son of William Robertson, of Westminster, by Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Grant, of Edinburgh; b. Aug. 2, 1871; adm. Jan. 24, 1884 (H); left (with a Triplett gratuity) July 1889; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Oct. 1 1, 1889; scholar 1892; B.A. 1893; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Nov. 18, 1901; North-Eastern Circuit; edited the 2nd and 3rd editions of Macnamara's Law of Carriers of Merchandise and Passengers by Land, and other works; d. May 7, 1937, by his will bequesthed £800 to the school for the foundation of prizes.

GB-2014-WSA-14811 · Person · 1873-1936

Robertson, Reginald James, brother of William Alexander Robertson (q.v.); b. Aug. 16, 1873; adm. Jan. 14, 1886 (H); left July 1891; d. June 1, 1936.

GB-2014-WSA-14808 · Person · 1876-1917

Robertson, Norman Cairns, brother of William Alexander Robertson (q.v.); b. Jan. 9, 1876; adm. Sept. 25, 1888 (H); left April 1894; joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. 1914; Capt. 2nd Batt. Hants Regt. Feb. 20, 1915; taken prisoner near Monchy, April 23, 1917; d. in a German military hospital at Hanover, June 20, 1917.

GB-2014-WSA-14806 · Person · 1877-1916

Robertson, Laurence Grant, brother of William Alexander Robertson (q.v.); b. May 5, 1877; adm. May 8, 1891 (H); left April 1895; a chartered accountant on the District Audit Staff of the Local Government Board; 2nd Lieut. Army Ordnance Dept. Feb. 7, 1915, at­tached King's Own Scottish Borderers July 1915; killed in action at Delville Wood in the Battle of the Somme, France, July 30, 1916; unm.

GB-2014-WSA-14803 · Person · 1896-?

Robertson, Guy Bernhard, son of the Rt. Hon. John Mackinnon Robertson, P.C., M.P., of Westerham, Kent, by Maude, daughter of Charles Mosher, of Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.A.; b. Nov. 2, 1896; adm. Sept. 26, 1907 (H); left Easter 1910; served in Great War I; temp. Lieut. R.F.A. Dec. 15, 1917; wounded at Delville Wood Sept. 15, 1916, and gassed Aug. 1917.