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BART SIR JOHN BEVERLEY ROBINSON

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 423 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BART
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SIR JOHN BEVERLEY ROBINSON
  . (1791-1863),
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Canadian statesman and jurist, was the son of Christopher Robinson (1764-1798), one of the
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band known as
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United
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Empire
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Loyalists, who came to
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Canada at the conclusion of the
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American Revolution . He was born at Berthier,
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Quebec, on the 26th of
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July 1791, and studied under Dr John Strachan, by whom his religious and
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political ideas were much influenced . He served with distinction at the beginning of the war of 1812, and later in the war was appointed acting attorney-general of Upper Canada . In 1815 he visited England and read law at Lincoln's
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Inn . From 1818 till 1829 he was the head of the Tory party in Upper Canada (the so-called "
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Family Compact ") . In 1829 he became chief justice of Upper Canada, which position he held till shortly before his
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death on the 31st'of
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January 1863 . Not one of his decisions was ever reversed on
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appeal . In 1824 and again in 1839 he strongly advocated a federal union of
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British North
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America, and in 1839 opposed in Canada and the Canada
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Bill the legislative union of the two Canadas
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pro-posed by Lord Durham . In 1854 he was created a
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baronet of the United
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Kingdom and in 1855 a D.C.L. of Oxford University . His unbending Toryism rendered him a reactionary in politics, but his bitterest opponents admitted his sincerity and patriotism . Several of his sons rose to eminence, John Beverley Robinson (182o-1896) becoming a member of the Dominion ,parliament and
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lieutenant-governor of Ontario (188o-1887) .

Christopher Robinson (1828–1905) was for many years the acknowledged

leader of the Canadian Bar . His
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Life, by his son, Major-General C . W . Robinson, C.B . (
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Toronto and
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London, 1904), gives a very favourable picture of the
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fine old colonial gentleman and loyalist . For a less favourable view see J . C . Dent, Canadian Portrait Gallery, vol. iv . (Toronto, 1881) .

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