Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham
Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham PC (born November 30, 1738 in Vienna , † July 20, 1786 in Grantham House, Putney Heath , Surrey ) was a British nobleman and politician .
Life
Robinson was the son of the British Ambassador to Vienna Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham , and his wife Frances Worsley.
Robinson first attended Westminster School and then studied at Christ's College at the University of Cambridge , where he graduated in 1757. He was a member of the House of Commons for nine years since 1761 for the Borough of Christchurch in Dorset . On February 13, 1770 he was promoted to Deputy Chamberlain of the Household ( Vice-Chamberlain of the Household ) and sworn in on the 26th of the same month as a member of the Privy Council . On the death of his father in 1770 he inherited his title of nobility as Baron Grantham , rose thereby to the House of Lords and left the House of Commons. He was British Ambassador to Spain from 1771 to 1779 , President of the Board of Trade from 1780 to 1782 and from July 1782 to April 1783 British Foreign Minister under Prime Minister William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne .
Marriage and offspring
In 1780 he married Lady Mary Jemima Gray Yorke (1757–1830), second daughter of Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke and the Jemima Yorke, 2nd Marchioness Gray , with whom he had three sons:
- Thomas Philip Robinson, 2nd Earl de Gray , 3rd Baron Grantham (1781-1859);
- Frederick Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon (1782-1859);
- Hon. Philip Robinson (1783-1794).
literature
- George Fisher Russell Barker: Robinson, Thomas (1738–1786) . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 49: Robinson - Russell. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1897, pp. 51 - 52 (English).
- Grantham, Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 12 : Gichtel - harmonium . London 1910, section Grantham's elder son, Thomas Robinson (1738–1786) , pp. 358–359 (English, full text [ Wikisource ] - mentioned in the contribution to the father).
- Robinson, Thomas . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 5 : Pace – Spyers . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1953, pp. 334 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 14, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ Frederick Maurice Powicke, Edmund Boleslav Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Royal Historical Society, London 1961, p. 116.
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Thomas Robinson |
Baron Grantham 1770-1786 |
Thomas Robinson |
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SURNAME | Robinson, Thomas, 2nd Baron Grantham |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grantham, 2nd Baron |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British nobleman and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1738 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1786 |
Place of death | Putney Heath , Surrey |