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JOHN ROBINSON (1650-1723)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 423 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:ROBINSON (1650-1723)  , See also:English diplomatist and See also:prelate, a son of See also:John See also:Robinson (d . 1651), was See also:born at Cleasby, near See also:Darlington, on the 7th of See also:November 1650 . Educated at Brasenose See also:College, See also:Oxford, he became a See also:fellow of See also:Oriel College, and about 168o See also:chaplain to the See also:British See also:embassy to See also:Stockholm, and remained in See also:Sweden for nearly See also:thirty years . During the See also:absence of the See also:minister, See also:Philip See also:Warwick, Robinson acted as See also:resident and as See also:envoy extraordinary, and he was thus in Sweden during a very interesting and important See also:period, and was per-forming See also:diplomatic duties at a See also:time when the affairs of See also:northern See also:Europe were attracting an unusual amount of See also:attention . Among his adventures not the least noteworthy was his See also:journey to See also:Narva with See also:Charles XII. in 1700 . In 1709 Robinson returned to See also:England, and was appointed See also:dean of See also:Windsor and of See also:Wolverhampton; in 1710 he was elected See also:bishop of See also:Bristol, and among other ecclesiastical positions he held that of dean of the See also:Chapel Royal . In See also:August 1711 he became See also:lord privy See also:seal, this being, says Lord See also:Stanhope, " the last time that a bishop has been called upon to fill a See also:political See also:office." In 1712 the bishop re-presented England at the important See also:congress of See also:Utrecht, and at first plenipotentiary he signed the treaty of Utrecht in See also:April 1713 . Just after his return to England he was chosen bishop of See also:London in See also:succession to See also:Henry See also:Compton . He died at See also:Hampstead on the 11th of April 1723, having been a See also:great benefactor to Oriel College . Robinson wrote an See also:Account of Sweden: together with an See also:Extract-of the See also:History of that See also:Kingdom . By a See also:person of See also:note who resided many years there (London, 1695) . This was translated into See also:French (See also:Amsterdam, 1712), and in 1738 was published with See also:Viscount See also:Molesworth's Account of See also:Denmark in 1692 .

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

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