Sir Thomas Robinson, first baronet

(1702 c.-1777)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Robinson Sir Thomas (? 1700-1777) Knight Colonial Governor DNB: Robinson, Sir Thomas, first baronet (1702/3-1777), architect and collector LBT ID: ThRobin1777 VIAF ID: 95738623	B/BAP: 1702 DIED: 1777-03-03
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com
English architect, architect, connoisseur, MP, governor of Barbados, and friend of Lord Chesterfield. He sold the family estate at Rokeby in 1769.
REFERENCES TO Sir Thomas Robinson, first baronet: J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby to Walter Scott, 28 December 1811 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 23 July 1812 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Verse 1: p. 346a Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XII 1811-12 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XVII. 1812 Verse 1: p. 346a