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John Robinson (
7 November,
1650 -
11 April,
1723),
English diplomat and prelate, a son of John Robinson (d. 1651), was born at
Cleasby, near
Darlington.
Early life
Educated at
Brasenose College, Oxford, he became a fellow of
Oriel College, and about 1680 chaplain to the British embassy to
Stockholm, and remained in Sweden for nearly thirty years. During the absence of the minister,
Philip Warwick, Robinson acted as resident and as envoy extraordinary, and he was thus in Sweden during a very interesting and important period, and was performing diplomatic duties at a time when the affairs of northern Europe were attracting an unusual amount of attention.
Among his adventures not the least noteworthy was his journey to
Narva with
Charles XII in 1700. In 1709 Robinson returned to England, and was appointed dean of
Windsor and of
Wolverhampton; in 1710 he was elected
bishop of Bristol, and among other ecclesiastical positions he held that of dean of the Chapel Royal. In August 1711 he became lord privy seal, this being, says
Lord Stanhope, "the last time that a bishop has been called upon to fill a political office." Echoing his Scandanvian connections, the motto on his coat of arms is written in
runic characters.
In
1712 the bishop represented Great Britain at the important congress of Utrecht, and as first plenipotentiary he signed the
treaty of Utrecht in April 1713 that ended the
War of the Spanish Succession. Just after his return to England he was chosen
bishop of London in succession to
Henry Compton. He died at Hampstead on the 11th of April 1723, having been a great benefactor to Oriel College, and is buried at
All Saints Church, Fulham, London.
Writings
Robinson wrote an
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). This was translated into French (Amsterdam, 1712), and in 1738 was published with
Viscount Molesworth's
Account of Denmark in 1692. Some of his letters are among the Strafford papers in the
British Museum.
Other
A member of the same family was
Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson and Gary Weiss, critic of Patrick M. Byrne.
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