John Robinson (Bishop)

Bishop John Robinson

John Robinson (born November 7, 1650 in Cleasby (near Darlington , North Yorkshire ), † April 11, 1723 in Hampstead ) was an English diplomat and Anglican bishop . He is considered an early mediator between Sweden and England.

Life

The son of John Robinson († 1651) attended Brasenose College in Oxford and became a Fellow of Oriel College there. He received his doctorate in theology in 1697. In 1678 he became a chaplain at the British Embassy in Stockholm , where he stayed for almost 30 years. When the ambassador ( Philip Warwick 1680-83) was absent, Robinson acted there as resident and from 1702 envoy extraordinary at a time when northern Europe was the focus of diplomatic interests. He followed the Swedish King Charles X to the battle of Narva in 1700 and to Poland in 1703.

Robinson returned to England in 1709 and was appointed Dean of Windsor and Wolverhampton ; In 1710 he was elected Bishop of Bristol , among other ecclesiastical positions he was the dean of St George's Chapel (Windsor Castle) . August 1711 he rose to Lord Privy Seal . The motto on his tunic was written in runes .

1712 the bishop UK represented on the Peace Congress of Utrecht, signed the first representative of the Peace of Utrecht on 9 December 1713. On his return he was appointed Bishop of London elected, which office he held until death.

In 1718 he promoted a union plan for the English and Swedish churches, which Count Carl Gyllenborg , the Swedish ambassador in London, promoted. The plan failed due to resistance from the Swedish bishops.

Robinson was buried in All Saints Church, Fulham , London in 1723 .

Fonts

• Account of Sweden together with an Extract of the History of that Kingdom. By a person of note who resided many years there , London 1695. Reprint 2018 ISBN 978-1-37924180-5

Web links

• Robinson, John (1650–1723), bishop of London and diplomatist | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved January 18, 2020 . 

literature

• Linda S. Frey: The Treaties of the War of the Spanish Succession: An Historical and Critical Dictionary , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995 ISBN = 978-0-313-27884-6 | google books access = 2020-01-18

Single receipts

1. ↑ Thomas Stackhouse: Thomas Stackhouse AM Preacher at Beenham in Berkshire Defense of the Christian Religion against the most noble objections of today's unbelievers: First part . bey Johann Wilhelm Schmidt, 1759 ( google.de [accessed on January 18, 2020]).
2. ↑ Translated into French, Amsterdam 1712 et al .; Issue 1738 together with Viscount Molesworth 's Account of Denmark from 1692 provided extensive information about Scandinavia for a long time.

predecessor	Office	successor
Henry Compton	Bishop of London 1713–1723	Edmond Gibson