Other Events:

• Residence: Arden, Yorkshire, England

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Robinson. Thomas (son of Sir William Robinson and Frances Metcalfe) was buried on 16 July 1678. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rowland Norton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Office: 1689; High Sheriff of Yorkshire
• Office: From 1689 to 1695; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for North Allerton
• Hereditary Title: From 13 Feb. 1689/90; 1st Baronet, of Newby, co. York [E., 1690]
• Office: From 1698 to 1722; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for the City of York

Family/Spouse: Mary Aislabie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Rear-Admiral Sir Tancred Robinson, 3rd Baronet in 1713. Tancred (son of Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet and Mary Aislabie) was born circa 1685; died in 1754. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: From 22 Dec. 1736 to 2 Dec. 1738; 2nd Baronet, of Newby, co. York [E., 1690]

Notes:

Died:
He died unmarried.

Other Events:

• Military Service: Rear-Admiral of the White, Royal Navy
• Office: 1718; Lord Mayor of York
• Office: 1738; Lord Mayor of York
• Hereditary Title: From 2 Dec. 1738 to 1754; 3rd Baronet, of Newby, co. York [E., 1690]

Tancred married Mary Norton in 1713. Mary (daughter of Rowland Norton and Margaret Robinson) died in 1748. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England; Trinity College, Cambridge
• Education: Westminster, Middlesex, England; Westminster School
• Degree: 1715; Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (Cantab.)
• Degree: 1719; Master of Arts (M.A.) (Cantab.)
• Office: From 1723 to 1730, Paris, France; Secretary of the Embassy
• Office: From 1727 to 1734; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Thirsk
• Office: From 1730 to 1748; Envoy to Vienna
• Decoration: 26 June 1742; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
• Office: From 1748 to 1749; Junior Lord of Trade
• Office: From 1748 to 1761; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Christchurch
• Office: From 1749 to 1754; Master of the Wardrobe
• Decoration: 29 March 1750; Privy Counsellor (P.C.)
• Office: From March 1754 to Nov. 1755; Secretary of State for the South
• Office: From 1755 to 1760; Master of the Wardrobe
• Office: From April 1755 to Sept. 1755; Lord Justice (Regent) of the Realm
• Hereditary Title: From 7 April 1761 to 30 Sept. 1770; 1st Baron Grantham, of Grantham, co. Lincoln [G.B., 1761]
• Office: From 1765 to 1766; Joint Postmaster General
• Will: 7 June 1769
• Probate: 12 Dec. 1770

Notes:

Office:
Whig

Decoration:
He was invested at Vienna.

Office:
"He, in 1754, and in a greater degree Murray (afterwards Lord Mansfield), appear to have been the principal stay of the Newcastle Ministry, but Robinson was without Parliamentary influence, and unable to bear up against the struggle for power which ensued at that epoch. "By meer chance made Secretary of State, by meer chance brought out of it with a pension, which his family wanted and greater than he could have hoped or indeed did ask for; by meer chance made a peer. He wanted all this luck, for he was a very dull man, and from a great peculiarity of voice, gesture, diction, worse than a bad speaker, much worse than a silent man in Parliament. I should not do him justice if I did not mention (though it had no hand in his preferment) that he was a very honest and good natured man." (Lord Holland's Memoir.) "Though a good Secretary of State as far as the business of his office and that which related to foreign affairs, he was ignorant even of the language of a House of Commons controversy, and when he played the orator, which he too frequently attempted, it was so exceedingly ridiculous that those who loved and esteemed him could not always preserve a friendly composure of countenance." (Lord Waldegrave.) "He was a large, unwieldy man, and would in debate put his arms straight out, which made George Selwyn compare him to a signpost." (Colebrook, volume i, page 18.)" (Vicary Gibbs.)

Hereditary Title:
"As a peer he protested against the denial of privilege in the Wilkes case in 1763, and was a member of Rockingham's first administration, retiring with him in 1766." (Vicary Gibbs.)

Thomas married Frances Worsley on 13 July 1737 in Hovingham, Yorkshire, England. Frances (daughter of Thomas Worsley and Mary Frankland) was born in 1716; died in in Earl's Court, Kensington, Middlesex, England; was buried on 6 Nov. 1750 in Chiswick, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]