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Sir David Robinson (13 April 1904 – 10 January 1987) was a British "History of the Rosie" at cuh.org
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Biography of Sir David Robinson from the Robinson College website
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Sir David Robinson (13 April 1904 – 10 January 1987) was a British entrepreneur
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and philanthropist
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. He donated £18 million to the University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
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to establish a new college in his name. Robinson College, Cambridge
Robinson College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1977, it is one of the newest Oxbridge colleges and is unique in having been intended, from its inception, for both undergraduate and graduate students of bo ...
, the newest in the university, was formally opened in 1981. Robinson also donated £3 million to start the Rosie Hospital
The Rosie Hospital is Cambridge's first purpose-built maternity hospital in modern times. It is managed by the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The facility originates from the Central Union Poor House Infirmary whic ...
, named after his mother,/ref> which is now a part of
Addenbrooke's Hospital
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in Cambridge.
Robinson was born in Cambridge
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, England
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, but later moved to Bedford
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. He built a business renting
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radio
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s and television
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s, which was commercially successful. Robinson was also involved with horse-racing
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: in the late 1960s and 1970s he owned a large number of winning horses which also yielded significant profits.
His racing stables, Clarehaven, was one of the biggest racing stables in England. His string of 120–150 horses was split between two trainers, Michael Jarvis and Paul Davey.
He was knight
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ed in 1985, and died two years later in Newmarket, the centre of English horse-racing.
References
External links
Biography of Sir David Robinson from the Robinson College website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, David 1904 births 1987 deaths 20th-century British businesspeople British racehorse owners and breeders Knights Bachelor Freemasons of the United Grand Lodge of England 20th-century British philanthropists