William Robinson (1801W D Parish (ed). "Robinson, William". List of Carthusians, 1800 to 1879. Farncombe and Co. Lewes. 1879
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–1870) was an English lawyer, known as a law reporter.

Life

The second son of

Sir Christopher Robinson Sir Christopher Robinson (1766–1833), admiralty lawyer, and Judge of the High Court of Admiralty from 1828 to 1833. Life Born in 1766, he was son of Dr. Christopher Robinson, rector of Albury, Oxfordshire, and Wytham, Berkshire, who died at ...

, he was born on 22 October 1801. He entered

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in 1812, matriculated at

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

, on 25 January 1819. He graduated B.A. on 22 March 1823, M.A. on 2 July 1829, and DCL on 11 July 1829. Robinson was admitted to Doctors' Commons on 3 November 1830, and reported in the admiralty court. He died at Stanhope Villa, Charlwood Road, Putney, on 11 July 1870, aged 68.

Works

Robinson's published volumes of reports commenced "with the judgments of the Right Hon. Stephen Lushington", and covered the years from 1838 to 1850. The first volume appeared in 1844, and the second in 1848. The third, without a title-page, and consisting of two parts only, was issued in 1852. They were also edited by George Minot at Boston in 1853. These admiralty reports were a continuation of

John Haggard John Haggard (1794 – 31 October 1856) was an England, English ecclesiastical lawyer who was Chancellor of three dioceses. Family A member of the Haggard family, he was born at Bradfield, Hertfordshire, Bradfield, Hertfordshire, the third son of ...

's reports. For the purpose of

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, the name of WRobinson's admiralty reports may be abbreviated to W Rob Adm or Wm Rob or Rob (W). Sir Robert Phillimore said that a case reported in the first volume of these reports was much more fully and accurately reported in the first volume of the Notes of Cases.The Mary (1879) 5 PD 14 a
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Notes

References

* * *Samuel Austin Allibone. "Robinson, William". A Critical Dictionary of English Literature. Philadelphia. 1870. Volume 2
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