Henry Robinson (1819 – 4 January 1887) was a

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, and Rector of

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. He was the second son of William Robinson, gentleman, of St Leonard's,

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, and was educated at St Alban Hall, Oxford, where he matriculated on 25 October 1838, aged nineteen. There were then only seven members of the Hall, and only one tutor. He graduated BA in 1842 and proceeded to MA by seniority in 1852. Robinson was a master of Christ's Hospital from 1849 to 1857, when he was appointed as Rector of Kilkhampton. Between 1859 and 1872, he held benefices in

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and

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, and in 1862 incorporated as a Master of Arts of the

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. He graduated as a Bachelor and

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in 1871. In 1882, St Alban Hall was extinguished and merged into

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, which demolished its buildings."The historical register of the University of Oxford: being a supplement to the Oxford University calendar, with an alphabetical record of University honours and distinctions completed to the end of Trinity term 1888", pp. 214–215 Robinson wrote a memoir of his '' alma mater'', published in '' London Society'' in January 1887, in which he remembered the Hall fondly and cast some blame on the chancellor of the university,

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, for its closure:Henry Robinson, DD
"St Alban Hall, Oxford"
in '' London Society'', January 1887, reprinted in Volume 51, London: F. V. White & Co., 1887, pp. 191–198 Robinson died a few days after his article was published.

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