JOHN

See also:

• ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
• ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
• ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
• JOHN ROBINSON (1650-1723)
• ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
• ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
• ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
• ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
• ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)

ROBINSON (1650-1723)  , English diplomatist and prelate, a son of John Robinson (d . 1651), was born at Cleasby, near Darlington, on the 7th of November 1650 . Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he became a fellow of Oriel College, and about 168o chaplain to the British embassy to Stockholm, and remained in Sweden for nearly thirty years . During the absence of the minister, Philip Warwick, Robinson acted as resident and as envoy extraordinary, and he was thus in Sweden during a very interesting and important period, and was per-forming diplomatic duties at a time when the affairs of northern Europe were attracting an unusual amount of attention . Among his adventures not the least noteworthy was his journey to Narva with Charles XII. in 1700 . In 1709 Robinson returned to England, and was appointed dean of Windsor and of Wolverhampton; in 1710 he was elected bishop of Bristol, and among other ecclesiastical positions he held that of dean of the Chapel Royal . In August 1711 he became lord privy seal, this being, says Lord Stanhope, " the last time that a bishop has been called upon to fill a political office." In 1712 the bishop re-presented England at the important congress of Utrecht, and at first plenipotentiary he signed the treaty of Utrecht in April 1713 . Just after his return to England he was chosen bishop of London in succession to Henry Compton . He died at Hampstead on the 11th of April 1723, having been a great benefactor to Oriel College . Robinson wrote an Account of Sweden: together with an Extract-of the History of that Kingdom . By a person of note who resided many years there (London, 1695) . This was translated into French (Amsterdam, 1712), and in 1738 was published with Viscount Molesworth's Account of Denmark in 1692 .

Some of his letters are among the

Strafford papers in the British Museum . A member of the same family was Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson (1763–1852), a Virginian soldier, who fought for England during the American War of Independence . On the conclusion of peace he went to England, and in 1813 and 1814 he commanded a brigade under Wellington in Spain . After-wards he was governor of Tobago, and he became a general in 1841 . He died at Brighton on the 1st of January 1852 .