Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham

Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham (born April 24, 1695 in Grantham (Lincolnshire) , † September 30, 1770 in London ) was a British diplomat and politician.

Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham

He was the youngest son of the Member of Parliament for York (1697-1722) and Mayor of York Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet (1655-1736) from a merchant family in Yorkshire. His older brother was Rear Admiral Tancred Robinson (around 1685-1754).

Robinson attended Cambridge University and was then a diplomat in Paris (embassy secretary 1723 to 1730) and Vienna, where he was ambassador from 1730 to 1748. Among other things, he was involved in the negotiations for the Treaty of Vienna (1731) and in 1748 he represented England at the Peace of Aachen . In 1742 he was a Knight Companion of the Bath to beat Knight . From 1748 to 1761 he was on the Whigs side of the House of Commons for Christchurch (and previously 1727 to 1734 for Thirsk) and in 1750 he was appointed to the Privy Council . In 1754 he became State Secretary in the Southern Department of the Foreign Office and a member of the Cabinet of the British Prime Minister, the Duke of Newcastle, as Leader of the House of Commons , which he remained until 1755. 1761 he was appointed as Baron Grantham , of Grantham in the County of Lincoln to peer collected and received a seat in the House of Lords . 1748/48 he was junior Lord of Trade, 1749 to 1754 and 1755 to 1760 he was Master of the Great Wardrobe , 1755 Lord Justice of the Realm and 1765/66 Postmaster General .

The place Grantham in New Hampshire is named after him.

In 1737 he married Frances Worsley (1716–1750), with whom he had two sons and six daughters. His son Thomas inherited his baron title.

Web links

• Cracroft's Peerage
• Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham on thepeerage.com

predecessor	Office	successor
James Waldegrave	British ambassador to Austria 1730–1748	Robert Murray Keith
New title created	Baron Grantham 1761-1770	Thomas Robinson