Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Robinson, Frederick John, Earl of Ripon

by Joseph Foster

Robinson, Frederick John, Earl of Ripon, created D.C.L. 12 June, 1839 (2s. Thomas, Baron Grantham); M.P. Carlow 1806-7, Ripon 1807-27, chancellor of the Exchequer 1823, Colonial secretary and 1st lord of the Treasury 1827, created Viscount Goderich 28 April, 1827, lord privy seal and 1st lord of the Treasury 1833-4, created Earl of Ripon 10 April, 1833, president Board of Trade 1841, M.A. from St. John's Coll., Cambridge, 1802, a student of Lincoln's Inn 1802, died 28 Jan., 1859. See Foster's Peerage.