| 1. |  Thomas (Robinson), 1st Baron Grantham was born on 24 April 1695 in York, Yorkshire, England; was christened on 24 April 1695 in St. Michael le Belfrey, York, Yorkshire, England (son of Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet and Mary Aislabie); died on 30 Sept. 1770; was buried on 6 Oct. 1770 in Chiswick, Middlesex, England. Other Events:
- Education: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England; Trinity College, Cambridge
- Education: Westminster, Middlesex, England; Westminster School
- Degree: 1715; Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (Cantab.)
- Degree: 1719; Master of Arts (M.A.) (Cantab.)
- Office: From 1723 to 1730, Paris, France; Secretary of the Embassy
- Office: From 1727 to 1734; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Thirsk
- Office: From 1730 to 1748; Envoy to Vienna
- Decoration: 26 June 1742; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
- Office: From 1748 to 1749; Junior Lord of Trade
- Office: From 1748 to 1761; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Christchurch
- Office: From 1749 to 1754; Master of the Wardrobe
- Decoration: 29 March 1750; Privy Counsellor (P.C.)
- Office: From March 1754 to Nov. 1755; Secretary of State for the South
- Office: From 1755 to 1760; Master of the Wardrobe
- Office: From April 1755 to Sept. 1755; Lord Justice (Regent) of the Realm
- Hereditary Title: From 7 April 1761 to 30 Sept. 1770; 1st Baron Grantham, of Grantham, co. Lincoln [G.B., 1761]
- Office: From 1765 to 1766; Joint Postmaster General
- Will: 7 June 1769
- Probate: 12 Dec. 1770
Notes:
Office:
Whig
Decoration:
He was invested at Vienna.
Office:
"He, in 1754, and in a greater degree Murray (afterwards Lord Mansfield), appear to have been the principal stay of the Newcastle Ministry, but Robinson was without Parliamentary influence, and unable to bear up against the struggle for power which ensued at that epoch. "By meer chance made Secretary of State, by meer chance brought out of it with a pension, which his family wanted and greater than he could have hoped or indeed did ask for; by meer chance made a peer. He wanted all this luck, for he was a very dull man, and from a great peculiarity of voice, gesture, diction, worse than a bad speaker, much worse than a silent man in Parliament. I should not do him justice if I did not mention (though it had no hand in his preferment) that he was a very honest and good natured man." (Lord Holland's Memoir.) "Though a good Secretary of State as far as the business of his office and that which related to foreign affairs, he was ignorant even of the language of a House of Commons controversy, and when he played the orator, which he too frequently attempted, it was so exceedingly ridiculous that those who loved and esteemed him could not always preserve a friendly composure of countenance." (Lord Waldegrave.) "He was a large, unwieldy man, and would in debate put his arms straight out, which made George Selwyn compare him to a signpost." (Colebrook, volume i, page 18.)" (Vicary Gibbs.)
Hereditary Title:
"As a peer he protested against the denial of privilege in the Wilkes case in 1763, and was a member of Rockingham's first administration, retiring with him in 1766." (Vicary Gibbs.)
Thomas married Frances Worsley on 13 July 1737 in Hovingham, Yorkshire, England. Frances (daughter of Thomas Worsley and Mary Frankland) was born in 1716; died in in Earl's Court, Kensington, Middlesex, England; was buried on 6 Nov. 1750 in Chiswick, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- Thomas (Robinson), 2nd Baron Grantham was born on 30 Nov. 1738 in Vienna, Austria; died on 20 July 1786 in Grantham House, Putney Heath, Surrey, England; was buried on 27 July 1786 in Chiswick, Middlesex, England.
- Hon. Theresa Robinson was born on 1 Jan. 1744/45 in Vienna, Austria; died on 21 Dec. 1775; was buried in Plympton St. Mary, Devon, England.
- Hon. Frederick Robinson was born on 11 Oct. 1746; died on 28 Dec. 1792.
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1695 - 1770 (75 years)
