Sir George Robinson, 1st Baronet

Sir George Abercrombie Robinson, 1st Baronet (29 March 1758 – 13 February 1832) was a British MP and Chairman of the East India Company.

He was born the son of John Robinson of Calcutta, who died at the Cape of Good Hope in 1779, and Margaret, daughter of George Leslie of Kimrawgie, North Britain.[1] He joined the East India Company in 1779 as a cadet and was successively promoted to ensign, Commissary-General (1786), Aide-de-Camp to Lord Cornwallis (Governor-General of Bengal) (1788), Head Assistant in the Military Auditor-General’s office (1788–92), Garrison Storekeeper at Fort William and Secretary to the Military Board, captain (1798) and Military Auditor-General (1798). He retired in 1802 and served as Private Secretary to Cornwallis from July to October, 1805.

He became a director of the East India Company from 1808 to 1829, acting as Chairman in 1820 and 1826 .[2] and was also a director of the Globe Insurance Company. He was elected as the MP for Honiton in 1812 (until 1818).

He was created the first Baronet of Batts House, Somerset on 11 November 1823.[3] The title would become extinct in 1944 on the death of Sir Douglas Robinson, 6th Baronet.[4]

On 27 March 1794 he married, in Calcutta, Margaret Southwell, the natural daughter of Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Suffolk, with whom he had seven sons and a daughter:[5]

  • George-Best - died young
  • Francis-Matilda - died young
  • Sir George Best Robinson, 2nd Baronet - became the second chief superintendent of British trade in China in 1835.[6]
  • Francis-Horsley
  • The Revd William-Scott Robinson, Rector of Dyrham, Gloucestershire
  • Charles-Cornwallis - died young
  • Henry-Sterling
  • Edward Innes

He died on 13 February 1832 at his son William-Scotts house in Dyrham after a long illness. Margaret predeceased him on 21 May 1824.

References

  1. ↑ John Debrett (1840). The baronetage of England. revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen. p. 468.
  2. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The_India_list_and_India_Office_list&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7wA_T_fJGYuxhAfOhJW4BQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The_India_list_and_India_Office_list&f=false
  3. ↑ "No. 17962". The London Gazette. 30 September 1823. p. 1615.
  4. ↑ http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsR2.htm,
  5. ↑ "Obituary: Sir G.A. Robinson, Bart". The Gentleman's Magazine. 102 (1): 270. 1832.
  6. ↑ "Official Notification". The Canton Register. 8 (4). 1835.
  • "ROBINSON, George Abercrombie (1758-1832), of Batts House, Trull, Som". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Augustus Cavendish-Bradshaw		 Member of Parliament for Honiton
1812–1818		 Succeeded by
Samuel Crawley
Political offices
Preceded by
Campbell Marjoribanks		 Chairman of the British East India Company
1820		 Succeeded by
Thomas Reid
Preceded by
Campbell Marjoribanks		 Chairman of the British East India Company
1826		 Succeeded by
Hon. Hugh Lindsay


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