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~ ROBINSON FAMILY ~

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_1807 died at Canterbury - aged 75, Charles ROBINSON, esq. brother to the late Lord Rokeby. He was the youngest of seven sons of Matthew Rokeby, esq. of West Layton, in the county of York; and having been called to the Bar as a member of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, was in 1763 chosen recorder of Canterbury, and subsequently of the cinque ports of Sandwich, Dover, and Romney, with their dependant limbs of Deal, Folkstone, and Fordwich. He represented Canterbury in two successive Parliaments, with an indepnedence not more to his own honour than to that of his constituents. From this honourable post he retired in 1790, and soon after from his practice at the Bar, and has since lived to enjoy the otium cum dignitate, respected and esteemed by all with whom he was connected. (the Athenaeum, vol 1)

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~ ROBINSON FAMILY ~ CANTERBURY _1807 died at Canterbury - aged 75, Charles ROBINSON, esq. brother to the late Lord Rokeby. He was the youngest of seven sons of Matthew Rokeby, esq. of West Layton, in the county of York; and having been called to the Bar as a member of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, was in 1763 chosen recorder of Canterbury, and subsequently of the cinque ports of Sandwich, Dover, and Romney, with their dependant limbs of Deal, Folkstone, and Fordwich. He represented Canterbury in two successive Parliaments, with an indepnedence not more to his own honour than to that of his constituents. From this honourable post he retired in 1790, and soon after from his practice at the Bar, and has since lived to enjoy the otium cum dignitate, respected and esteemed by all with whom he was connected. (the Athenaeum, vol 1) PLEASE CAN YOU CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION TO SHARE ON THE FAMILY
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