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Robbins, Richard Michael, son of Alfred Gordon Robbins, publisher, and Josephine, d. of Richard Lovat Capell, ironmonger, of Northampton; b. 7 Sept. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (KS); Capt. of the school 1933-4; left July 1934; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1934, Dixon Schol. 1937; joined LPTB 1939; RE (Transportation) 1939-46 (Maj.), served Persia and Iraq 1941-3, GHQ MEF 1943-4, AML Greece 1944-5; rejoined LPTB 1946, sec. to Chairman 1947-50, sec. LT Executive 1950-5, sec. and chief PRO 1955-60, chief commercial and PR officer 1960-5, member LT Executive 1965-80 (man. dir. Railways 1971-8); BA (Oxon.) 1952, MA 1964; FCIT 1955; FSA 1957, treas. 1971-87, Pres. 1987-91; CBE 1976; Pres. Inst. of Transport 1975-6; a governor Museum of London 1969-, chairman of governors 1979-; hon. DLitt City Univ. 1987; author of The Railway Age 1962, George and Robert Stephenson 1966, A Public Transport Century 1985; m. 21 Oct. 1939 Rose Margaret Elspeth, d. of Sir Robert Reid Bannatyne CB, Asst Under­ Sec. of State Home Office; d. 21 Dec. 2002.

ROBBINS, HERBERT EYRE, only son of Lieut. -Col. Nathaniel Eyre Robbins, Queen’s Bays, and Rose, sister of Edward Eardley Harris Repton (qv); b. 14 Jun 1849; adm. 17 Oct 1860; left Dec 1860; 2nd Lieut., Royal Marines 22 Jun 1867; Lieut., 3 Aug 1867; Capt., 1 Jul 1881; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-Gen., Egypt 1885-6; Maj., 8 Feb 1889; Lieut. -Col., 18 Sep 1895; retd. 22 Jun 1898; served in Sudan expedition 1885; m. 4 Aug 1887 Catherine Jane, third dau. of Robert Heard, Pallastown, Kinsale, co. Cork, Ireland; d. 4 Nov 1907.

Robbins, Edgar Carmichael, son of John Haldeman Robbins of Beckenham, Kent, and Enid Amy, d. of Edgar Rowe Everington, solicitor, of Upper Norwood; b. 22 Mar. 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (H); left July 1928; LLB (Lond.) 1933, John Mackrell Prizeman of the Law Soc.; adm. a solicitor 1933; joined BBC legal staff 1934, solicitor BBC 1945, legal adviser 1959, retd 1974; CBE 1957; asst clerk and treasurer City of London Solicitors' Company 197 5; m. 26 Dec. 1936 Alice Eugenia, sister of Humphrey Norman Nash (qv); d. 1 Sept. 1988.

ROBBINS, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1554 (Chapter Muniments).

RIX, GEORGE; b.; adm. 13 Sep 1807; left 1811. [See RIX, CECIL, above].

RIX, GEORGE, son of John Rix, Westminster; b. ; at school under Vincent (Admissions to Trin. Coll. Camb. , iii, 333); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1792, aged 17; BA 1798; ordained deacon 31 Dec 1797, priest 25 Apr 1802 (both London). [will Rev. George Rix, Ugley, Essex, proved PCC 15 Mar 1825] [he was Vicar of Ugley; m. (by 1812)]

Rix, Edwin Vignoles, son of Walter Burton Rix, of Karachi, India, by his second wife, Agnes Helen, daughter of John O'Flynn, of Belgaum, India; b. Feb. 13, 1888; adm. May 3, 1900 (A); left Easter 1904; d. Aug. 1, 1906.

RIX, CECIL; b.; adm. 13 Sep 1807; left 1809; m. 15 Feb 1830 Mary Ann Howard, Chelsea. [Evidently brother of, or close kin to, George Rix, adm. same day].