Baron Rosmead, of Rosmead in the County of Westmeath and of Tafelberg in South Africa, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created on 11 August 1896 for the colonial administrator Sir Hercules Robinson, 1st Baronet

Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead

Hercules George Robert Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead, GCMG, PC was a British colonial administrator who became the 5th Governor of Hong Kong...

. He had already been created a Baronet, of Ennismore Gardens in the Parish of St Margaret, Westminster, in the County of London, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 6 February 1891. The titles became extinct on the death of his son, the second Baron, in 1933.

Several other members of the Robinson family also gained distinction. Hercules Robinson, father of the first Baron, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy

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. Sir Henry Robinson, brother of the first Baron, was Vice-President of the Local Government Board in Ireland between 1879 and 1891. Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson

William Cleaver Francis Robinson

Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson GCMG was a British colonial administrator and a musical composer, being the author of several well known songs...

, brother of the first Baron, was also a prominent colonial administrator. Frederick Charles Robinson, brother of the first Baron, was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy. Loftus Christopher Hawker Robinson, brother of the first Baron, was a Captain in the Royal Navy. Sir Bryan Robinson, uncle of the first Baron, was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland

Newfoundland and Labrador

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 between 1858 and 1877. Christopher Robinson, grandfather of the first Baron, was a Judge of the King's Bench of Ireland. Bryan Robinson, great-grandfather of the first Baron, was Regius Professor of Physic

Regius Professor of Physic (Dublin)

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 at Trinity College, Dublin

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Barons Rosmead (1896)

• Hercules George Robert Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead
  Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead
  Hercules George Robert Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead, GCMG, PC was a British colonial administrator who became the 5th Governor of Hong Kong...
  
  (1824-1897)
• Hercules Arthur Temple Robinson, 2nd Baron Rosmead (1866-1933)