ROBERTSON, WILLIAM HENRY; b.; in school list 1801; left Easter 1803. [Apparently = SEWELL, SIR WILLIAM HENRY; said to have been educated at Westminster and Eton (in Eton school lists 1805, as Robertson), and to have changed his surname to Sewell from Robertson when he entered the army; Ensign, 60th Foot 27 Mar 1806; 16th Light Dragoons 1806; Lieut., 20 Feb 1807; Capt., 12 Mar 1812; Capt., 60th Foot 1813; brevet Maj., 3 Mar 1814; Lieut. -Col., 21 Jun 1817; half-pay 25 Oct 1821; served in Peninsular War; ADC and Staff Officer to Lord Beresford; re-employed as Deputy Quartermaster-General, Madras 24 Feb 1828 – 18 Jun 1841; Capt., 49th Foot 29 May 1828; Maj., 31st Foot 11 Aug 1829; Col. in Army 10 Jan 1837; CB 19 Jul 1838; Lieut. -Col., 6th Foot 17 Sep 1839; 94th Foot 30 Mar 1841; commanding British troops, Bangalore 1841-6; Major-Gen., 9 Mar 1846; commanding Central Division, Madras Presidency 1849-51, Mysore Division 1851-4; Col., 26th Foot 24 Mar 1852; Col., 79th Foot, from 24 Mar 1854; Lieut. -Gen., 20 Nov 1854; acting Commander in Chief, Madras 1855; retd. 1856; KCB 28 Jun 1861; Gen., 10 Nov 1861; m. at Madras 1831 Georgina Hacking, dau. of Major-Gen. Sir John Dalrymple, Bart.; d. at Florence, Italy 13 Mar 1862, aged 72]
Robey, Edward George Haydon, son of Sir George Robey, C.B.E., of St. Jolms Wood, actor, by his first wife Ethel Haydon; b. March 26, 1900; adm. Sept. 24, 1914 (G); left July 1918; Jesus Coll. Camb., matric.; B.A. 1924; LL.B. 1924; called to the bar at the Inner Temple June 24, 1925; senior legal asst., Director of Public Prosecutions; apptd. to Attorney-General's Executive for prosecution of the Major War Criminals at Nuremburg, 1945; Metropolitan Magistrate 1954; now Judge, City Court Bench; m. Sept. 9, 1942, Denise, daughter of Denis Williams, of Virginia Water, Surrey; d. 5 Mar. 1983.
ROBINS, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jul 1725; in school list 1729.
ROBINSON, ---; b.; in under school list 1719.
ROBINSON, ---; b.; in under school lists 1723-5.
ROBINSON, ARCHIBALD; b.; adm. 25 Jun 1787. [Note Archibald Thomas Robinson, second son of Daniel Robinson, Gray’s Inn, and Esther ---, bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 11 Dec 1776 (IGI), adm. Gray’s Inn 1 Jul 1794] [mother perhaps Hester Harper (IGI)]
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.
Robinson, Francis Edward Thornton, son of Francis Robinson, of Greenwich; b. March 5, 1895; adm. Jan. 20, 1910 (H); left July 1911.
ROBINSON, FRANCIS, eldest son of Thomas Robinson, Begbroke House, Oxfordshire, banker; b. 29 Oct 1804; adm. 7 Oct 1818 (Packharness'); Min. Can. 1819; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, scholar 1819-26, matr. 16 Oct 1819; BA 1823; MA 1826; Fellow, Corpus Christi Coll. 1826-31; ordained deacon 1824 [check], priest 1829 (both Oxford); Rector of Staughton Parva, Beds., 9 Aug 1831-81; Rector of Stonesfield, Oxfordshire 24 May 1834-82; m. 10 Sep 1831 (IGI) Sophia Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Rev. Edward Rowden, Vicar of Highworth, Wilts.; d. 17 Nov 1886.
ROBINSON, GEORGE CROKE, second son of John Ellil Robinson (qv); b. 24 Jun 1838; adm. 18 Oct 1851 (G); QS 1853; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1857, matr. 4 Jun 1857, Westminster Student 1857-70; BA 1861; MA 1864; ordained deacon 1863, priest 1864 (both Ripon); Curate, St. Peter, Leeds, Yorks., 1863-6, West Bromwich, Staffs., 1866-7; Vicar of Benson, Oxfordshire 1867-79; subsequently held various curacies; Vicar of Radway, Warwickshire 1911-3; m. 6 Oct 1870 Maria Elizabeth, youngest dau. of Edwin E. Durrant, King’s Lynn, Norfolk [land agent ?].