Sir Henry Augustus Robinson, 1st Baronet, (20 November 1857 – 16 October 1927) was an
Irish
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civil servant
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.
Robinson was born in
Dublin
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, the son of Sir Henry Robinson (1823–1893) and his wife Eva (née Medora), daughter of the
10th Viscount Valentia. Although he initially started work in a
London
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merchant's office, he followed his father into the Irish Civil Service at the age of nineteen. He served in a number of temporary positions before being appointed an inspector with the
Local Government Board for Ireland
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, with which he remained for the rest of his career. He eventually became vice-president of the Board, a position previously held by his father, in 1898 and retired in 1922.
Robinson was appointed
Companion of the Order of the Bath
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(CB) in the
1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours
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and
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
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(KCB) in the
1900 Birthday Honours
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. He was appointed to the
Privy Council of Ireland
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in the November
1902 Birthday Honours
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, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable". He was created a
Baronet
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in the
1920 New Year Honours
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.
Robinson left Ireland in 1923, selling his
Foxrock
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house, and went to live in
Ealing
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as his life was under threat. He published a couple of volumes of memories of his Irish life in 1923–24, entitled 'Memories, Wise and Otherwise'. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Christopher. He had four granddaughters through his daughter Eva Eleanor Hone (''d''. 1894), including the stained glass artist
Evie Hone
Eva Sydney Hone RHA (22 April 1894 – 13 March 1955), usually known as Evie, was an Irish painter and stained glass artist.Nicola Gordon Bowe (May 2009)Hone, Eva Sydney (1894–1955) ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', online editi ...
.
Footnotes
References
*Obituary, ''
The Times
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'', 18 October 1927
*Brendan O'Donoghue, ''Activities Wise and Otherwise: The Career of Sir Henry Augustus Robinson, 1898–1922'', Irish Academic Press, 2015
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1857 births
1927 deaths
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Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Members of the Privy Council of Ireland
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