The Hon. Frederic ("Fritz") Robinson (11 October 1746 – 28 December 1792) was an English MP. Robinson was the second son of Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham. His older brother

Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham PC (30 November 173820 July 1786) was a British statesman. He notably served as Foreign Secretary between 1782 and 1783. Background and education Grantham was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Thomas Ro ...

was Ambassador at Madrid 1771–8; Fritz accompanied him to Spain as his Secretary, though ill-health forced him to return to England in 1777. He became

Tory A Tory () is an individual who supports a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalist conservatism which upholds the established social order as it has evolved through the history of Great Britain. The To ...

MP for

Ripon Ripon () is a cathedral city and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The city is located at the confluence of two tributaries of the River Ure, the Laver and Skell. Within the boundaries of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire, the ...

in 1781. In 1785, he married Katherine Gertrude Harris, the eldest surviving daughter of the musician and philosopher James Harris. He resigned his seat and accepted a pension in December 1787, and purchased 8 Whitehall Gardens, today Malmesbury House, in 1788; after his death his widow continued to live there until her own death in 1834.'Malmesbury House'
''Survey of London: volume 13: St Margaret, Westminster, part II: Whitehall I'' (1930), pp. 162-166. Date accessed: 24 June 2008.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, Frederick 1746 births 1792 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 Younger sons of barons