Robinson Baronets
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There have been eleven Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Robinson, four in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and six in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. As of 2008 two of the creations are extant while one is dormant.

The Robinson Baronetcy, of London, was created in the Baronetage of England on 22 June 1660 for John Robinson
Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London
Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1667. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1662....

, Lord Mayor of London
Lord Mayor of London
The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London is the legal title for the Mayor of the City of London Corporation. The Lord Mayor of London is to be distinguished from the Mayor of London; the former is an officer only of the City of London, while the Mayor of London is the Mayor of Greater London and...

 and Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 for the City of London
City of London (UK Parliament constituency)
The City of London was a United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1950.-Boundaries and boundary...

 and Rye
Rye (UK Parliament constituency)
Rye was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Rye in East Sussex. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was halved under the Reform Act 1832....

. He was the nephew of Archbishop William Laud
William Laud
William Laud was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645. One of the High Church Caroline divines, he opposed radical forms of Puritanism...

. The fifth and sixth Baronets both represented Northampton
Northampton (UK Parliament constituency)
Northampton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Northampton which existed until 1974.It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was reduced to one member for the 1918 general election...

 in the House of Commons
British House of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

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The Robinson Baronetcy, of Newby in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of England on 30 July 1660 for Metcalfe Robinson
Sir Metcalfe Robinson, 1st Baronet
Sir Metcalfe Robinson, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679 and from 1685 to 1689....

, Member of Parliament for York. The title became extinct on his death in 1689.

The Robinson Baronetcy, of Long Melford in the County of Suffolk, was created in the Baronetage of England on 26 January 1682 for Thomas Robinson. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1743.

The Robinson Baronetcy, of Newby in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of England on 13 February 1690. For more information on this creation, see Marquess of Ripon
Marquess of Ripon
Marquess of Ripon was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1870 for the Liberal politician George Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon. The Robinson family descended from William Robinson , a wealthy York merchant, Lord Mayor and Member of Parliament for York...

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The Robinson Baronetcy, of Rokeby in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 10 March 1731. For more information on this creation, see Baron Rokeby
Baron Rokeby
Baron Rokeby, of Armagh in the County of Armagh, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1777 for the Most Reverend Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh, with remainder to his brothers and his father's second cousin Matthew Robinson and the heirs male of their bodies...

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The Robinson Baronetcy, of Rokeby Hall in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 14 December 1819 for John Robinson. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in 1910.

The Robinson Baronetcy, of Batts House in the County of Somerset, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 11 November 1823 for George Robinson, who had earlier represented Honiton
Honiton (UK Parliament constituency)
Honiton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Honiton in east Devon, formerly represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It sent members intermittently from 1300, consistently from 1640. It elected two Members of Parliament until it was...

 in Parliament. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1944.

The Robinson Baronetcy, of Toronto in Canada, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 21 September 1854 for the Canadian lawyer and politician John Robinson
Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto
Sir John Beverley Robinson, 1st Baronet CB, was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Upper Canada.Robinson was born in 1791 at Berthier, Lower Canada, the son of Christopher Robinson, a United Empire Loyalist of one of the First Families of Virginia, whose grandfather came there in 1641 as...

. He was a descendant of Christopher Robinson, originally of Cleasby
Cleasby
Cleasby is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It is close to the River Tees and Darlington. John Robinson , bishop of London and diplomatist was born and attended school there. He was the son of a cooper in the village....

, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...

, who emigrated to Virginia
Virginia
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 in 1670, and who was the elder brother of The Right Reverend John Robinson
John Robinson (1650-1723)
John Robinson was an English diplomat and prelate.-Early life:Robinson was born at Cleasby, North Yorkshire, near Darlington, a son of John Robinson . Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he became a fellow of Oriel College, and about 1680 chaplain to the British embassy to Stockholm, and...

, Bishop of Bristol
Bishop of Bristol
The Bishop of Bristol heads the Church of England Diocese of Bristol in the Province of Canterbury, in England.The present diocese covers parts of the counties of Somerset and Gloucestershire together with a small area of Wiltshire...

 and Bishop of London
Bishop of London
The Bishop of London is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers 458 km² of 17 boroughs of Greater London north of the River Thames and a small part of the County of Surrey...

. John Beverley Robinson
John Beverley Robinson
John Beverley Robinson was elected mayor of Toronto in 1856. He was the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario between the years 1880–1887....

, younger son of the first Baronet and father of the fourth Baronet, was Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario is the viceregal representative in Ontario of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who operates distinctly within the province but is also shared equally with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United...

. Another member of the family to gain distinction was Sir Charles Walker Robinson (1836–1924), fourth son of the first Baronet. He was a Major-General in the Canadian Army. As of 13 June 2007 the presumed eighth and present Baronet has not successfully proven his succession and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered dormant since 1988. For more information, follow this link.

The Robinson Baronetcy, of Rosmead in the County of Westmeath, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 6 February 1891. For more information on this creation, see Baron Rosmead
Baron Rosmead
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. It was created on 11 August 1896 for the colonial administrator Sir Hercules Robinson, 1st Baronet...

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The Robinson Baronetcy, of Hawthornden, Wynberg, in the Cape Province of South Africa, and Dudley House in the City of Westminster, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 27 July 1908 for the South African mining magnate Joseph Robinson. He was nominated for a peerage in 1922 but declined the honour. The second Baronet was a member of the Parliament of South Africa
Parliament of South Africa
The Parliament of South Africa is South Africa's legislature and under the country's current Constitution is composed of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces....

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The Robinson, later Lynch-Robinson Baronetcy, of Foxrock in the County of Dublin, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 30 January 1920. For more information on this creation, see Lynch-Robinson Baronets
Lynch-Robinson Baronets
The Robinson, later Lynch-Robinson Baronetcy, of Foxrock in the County of Dublin, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 30 January 1920 for Henry Robinson, Vice-President of the Local Government Board for Ireland from 1898 to 1920...

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Robinson Baronets, of London (1660)

  • Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet
    Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London
    Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1667. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1662....

     (1615–1680)
  • Sir John Robinson, 2nd Baronet (c. 1660-c. 1693)
  • Sir James Robinson, 3rd Baronet (1669–1731)
  • Sir John Robinson, 4th Baronet (c. 1705-1765)
  • Sir George Robinson, 5th Baronet (1730–1815)
  • Sir George Robinson, 6th Baronet (1765–1833)
  • Sir George Stamp Robinson, 7th Baronet (1797–1873)
  • Sir John Blencowe Robinson, 8th Baronet (1830–1877)
  • Sir Frederick Laud Robinson, 9th Baronet (1843–1893)
  • Sir Frederick Villiers Laud Robinson, 10th Baronet (1880–1975)
  • Sir John James Michael Laud Robinson, 11th Baronet (b. 1943)

Robinson Baronets, of Long Melford (1682)

  • Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet (c. 1618-1683)
  • Sir Lumley Robinson, 2nd Baronet (c. 1649-1684)
  • Sir Thomas Robinson, 3rd Baronet (1681–1743)

Robinson Baronets, of Rokeby Hall (1819)

  • Sir John Freind Robinson, 1st Baronet (1754–1832)
  • Sir Richard Robinson, 2nd Baronet (1787–1847)
  • Sir John Stephen Robinson, 3rd Baronet (1816–1895)
  • Sir Gerald William Collingwood Robinson, 4th Baronet (1857–1903)
  • Sir Richard Harcourt Robinson, 5th Baronet (1828–1910)

Robinson Baronets, of Batts House (1823)

  • Sir George Abercrombie Robinson, 1st Baronet (1758–1832)
  • Sir George Best Robinson, 2nd Baronet (1797–1855)
  • Sir George Abercrombie Robinson, 3rd Baronet (1826–1891)
  • Sir William Le Fleming Robinson, 4th Baronet (1830–1895)
  • Sir Ernest William Robinson, 5th Baronet (1862–1924)
  • Sir Douglas Innes Robinson, 6th Baronet (1863–1944)

Robinson Baronets, of Toronto (1854)

  • Sir John Beverley Robinson, 1st Baronet
    Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto
    Sir John Beverley Robinson, 1st Baronet CB, was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Upper Canada.Robinson was born in 1791 at Berthier, Lower Canada, the son of Christopher Robinson, a United Empire Loyalist of one of the First Families of Virginia, whose grandfather came there in 1641 as...

     (1791–1863)
  • Sir James Lukin Robinson, 2nd Baronet (1818–1894)
  • Sir Frederick Arnold Robinson, 3rd Baronet (1855–1901)
  • Sir John Beverley Beverley Robinson, 4th Baronet (1848–1933)
  • Sir John Beverley Robinson, 5th Baronet (1895–1948)
  • Sir John Beverley Robinson, 6th Baronet (1885–1954)
  • Sir John Beverley Robinson, 7th Baronet (1913–1988)
  • Sir Christopher Philipse Robinson, 8th Baronet (b. 1938)

Robinson Baronets, of Hawthornden and Dudley House (1908)

  • Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, 1st Baronet (1840–1928)
  • Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, 2nd Baronet (1887–1954)
  • Sir Wilfred Henry Frederick Robinson, 3rd Baronet (b. 1917)
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