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ROBINSON, SIR THOMAS, BART., son of Henry Robinson, Westminster; b.; at school under Busby (Howell, State Trials, 1816, vii, 68); adm. Inner Temple Nov 1656, called to bar [check date], Bencher 5 Nov 1677, Treasurer from 7 Nov 1680 [check if to death]; Chief Prothonotary of the Common Pleas; created baronet 26 Jan 1681/2; m. 1648 Jane, eldest dau. of Lumley Dew, Upton Bishop, Herefs.; killed by falling from the window of his chambers at the Temple in attempting to escape from a fire there, 2 Aug 1683, aged 65.

ROBINSON, THOMAS, 2ND BARON GRANTHAM, elder son of Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham (qv); b. 30 Nov 1738; adm. Mar 1749/50 (Hawkins'); in school list 1754; Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 21 Feb 1755; MA 1757; Grand Tour (Italy) 1759-61; MP Christchurch 1761 – 30 Sep 1770; a Commissioner of Trade 11 Oct 1766 – Feb 1770; Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 13 Feb 1770 – Feb 1771; Privy Councillor 26 Feb 1770; succ. father as 2nd Baron Grantham 30 Sep 1770; Ambassador at Madrid May 1771- Jul 1779; First Commissioner of Trade 9 Dec 1780 – Jun 1782; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Jul 1782 – Apr 1783; member, Committee of Privy Council on Trade, from 5 Mar 1784; FSA 17 Mar 1763; member, Society of Dilettanti 1763; m. 17 Aug 1780 Lady Jemima Grey Yorke, younger dau. of Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; d. 20 Jul 1786. DNB.

ROBINSON, THOMAS, brother of Matthew Robinson-Morris, 2nd Baron Rokeby (I); bapt. 22 Apr 1714; adm. (aged 9) May 1723; in under school list 1729; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Apr 1731; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Apr 1730, called to bar 5 Feb 1735/6; author, The Common Law of Kent, or the Custom of Gavelkind, 1741; d. unm. 29 Dec 1747. DNB.

ROBINSON, THOMAS, 1ST BARON GRANTHAM, fourth son of Sir William Robinson, Bart., MP, and Mary, eldest dau. of George Aislabie, Studley Royal, Yorks.; b. 24 Apr 1695 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1708; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 Jan 1711/2, scholar 9 Apr 1714, matr. 1712; BA 1715/6; MA 1719; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1718, Major Fellow 10 Jul 1719; adm. Middle Temple 1 Feb 1722/3; Secretary to British Embassy, Paris 1723-30, Chargé d’Affaires in Ambassador’s absence 1724 and 1727; one of three British representatives at Congress of Soissons 1728-9; Ambassador at Vienna 1730-48; KB 26 Jun 1742; joint plenipotentiary with Earl of Sandwich in peace negotiations at Aix-la-Chapelle 1748; a painstaking diplomat of good business capacity, whose talents were valued by his former schoolfellow Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (qv); MP Thirsk 1727-34, Christchurch 30 Dec 1748-61; a Commissioner of Trade 1 Nov 1748 – Nov 1749; Master of the Great Wardrobe, Royal Household 23 Dec 1749 – Apr 1754; Secretary of State for the Southern Department, with the leadership of the House of Commons, 15 Apr 1754 – Nov 1755; he owed the appointment to his friendship with Newcastle, but he lacked the ability to manage the House of Commons; Master of the Great Wardrobe 21 Nov 1755 – Nov 1760; created Baron Grantham 7 Apr 1761; Joint Postmaster-General Jul 1765 – Dec 1766; member, Society of Dilettanti 1761; m. 13 Jul 1737 Frances, third dau. of Thomas Worsley MP, Hovingham, Yorks.; d. 30 Sep 1770. DNB.

ROBINSON, SIR RICHARD FREIND, BART. , son of Sir John Robinson, Bart. (adm. 1767, qv); b. 4 Mar 1787; adm. ; KS 1801; left 1804; Ensign, 29th Foot 20 Mar 1804; Lieut. , 28 Mar 1805; Capt. , 1st Foot 25 Dec 1806; Lieut. and Capt. , 1st Foot Guards 13 Apr 1809; retd. 26 Nov 1812; served in Peninsular War; succ. father as 2nd baronet 16 Apr 1832; DL co. Louth, High Sheriff 1844; m. 25 Feb 1813 Lady Helena Eleanor Moore, sister of Hon. Richard Francis Moore (qv); d. 2 Oct 1847.

ROBINSON, SIR JOHN, BART. , son of Sir James Robinson, Bart. , and Anne, dau. of Sir William Jesson, Kt, Newhouse, Warwicks. ; bapt. 2 Dec 1702; at school under Freind (Adm. Reg. of Sidney Sussex Coll. ); Sidney Sussex Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 25 Feb 1719, matr. 1720; succ. father as 4th baronet 28 Aug 1731; High Sheriff, Northamptonshire 1737; m. 1st, 5 May 1726 Mary, only dau. of John Morgan, Kingsthorpe, Northants; m. 2nd, 7 Jun 1736 Elizabeth Perkins, Manton, Warwicks. ; d. 31 Jul 1765.

ROBINSON, SETH, son of Woodall Robinson, Windsor, Berks.; b.; adm. (aged 10) Sep 1718; in under school list 1722; apprenticed to William Dobrie, Botolph Lane, London, merchant, 9 Jul 1724; m. 19 Sep 1747 Lucy, dau. of Rev. Nathaniel Marshall DD, Canon of Windsor. [Evidently a younger brother of, or close kin to, Thomas Robinson, adm. same month (they paid a joint admission fee); and probably Seth Robinson, Esq., St. George the Martyr, Middlesex, will proved PCC 27 May 1772].

ROBINSON, SIR SEPTIMUS, younger brother of Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby (I) (qv); b. 30 Jan 1709/10; adm. Oct 1720; KS 1726; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1730, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 May 1730; entered French army 1731; served under Galleronde in Flanders; afterwards joined English army and served in Flanders under Wade and Ligonier; Capt., 7th Dragoons 22 Dec 1747; Capt. -Lieut. and Lieut. -Col., 1st Foot Guards 29 May 1754; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 27 Aug 1754; retd. c. 1759; Governor to Dukes of Gloucester and Cumberland 1751-60; Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter, Royal Household, from 12 Dec 1760; Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Houses of Parliament, from 1761; knighted 10 Apr 1761; d. unm. 6 Sep 1765. DNB.

Robinson, Roger Tattersall, son of Sir Montague Arnet Robinson (qv); b. 9 Apr. 1932; adm. Sept. 1945 (KS); left July 1950; Trin. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1950, played golf against Cambridge 1952-3, BA 1953, MA 1958; dir. Coast Lines Ltd. 1955-72; man. American Service Kuwait and United Arab Shipping Cos 1972-80; m. 5 May 1962 Caroline Wendy, d. of Thomas Ashworth Hoyle, landowner, of Cropton, Pickering, Yorks; d. 19 Sept. 2016.

Robinson, Robert Theodore, son of Sir Alfred Theodore Vaughan Robinson KBE CB, Dep. Sec. Min. of Transport, and Muriel, d. of James Robert Hill, med. practitioner, of Tulse Hill; b. 14 Feb. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (H); left July 1925; Univ. of Toronto; branch man. Fuller Brush Co., Regina, Saskatchewan; Canadian Intell. Corps in WW2, MBE (NW Europe) Dec. 1945; Mutual Life Assurance Co. of Canada 1946; a chartered life underwriter 1952; m. 5 Oct. 1934 Ardyth, d. of George R. McMillan of Kelwood, Manitoba.