than seven months as Lieutenant of the Thracian, he took up a commission bearing date 17 March in that year. From Feb. 1821 until April, 1824, he filled an appointment in the Coast Guard in the Isle of Wight. He has not been since employed.
Lieut. Robins married, for the first time, in June, 1819. Being left a widower in Jan. 1822, he married, a second time, 15 April, 1823, Anne, relict of Commander Thos. Linthorne, R.N. (1798), of Poole, co. Dorset. By that lady, who died in March, 1837, he has issue two children.
ROBINSON. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 19; h-p., 27.)
Alfred Samuel Robinson entered the Navy, in 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Standard 64, Capt. Chas. Stewart, attached to the force in the North Sea. From May, 1802, until Feb. 1805, he was employed, the chief part of the time as Midshipman, in the Glatton 50, Capt. Jas. Colnett; in which ship he circumnavigated the globe and was for some time stationed at Leith under the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Vashon. After serving for three years and a half (during which period he commanded a boat at the capture and destruction of a convoy under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, and assisted in cutting out three vessels from under a heavy fire at St. Martin’s) in the Channel, Downs, and North Sea, and also off Lisbon, in the Pomone frigate, Capts. Wm. Grenville Lobb, Rich. Budd Vincent, and Robt. Barrie, he was nominated, 5 Aug. 1808, Acting-Lieutenant of the Woolwich 44, Capt. Fras. Beaufort, on the Mediterranean station. He left that ship 6 June, 1809; was officially promoted 2 Jan. 1810; and was subsequently appointed – 8 Jan. 1810, to the Fly sloop, Capts. John Thompson, Manley Hall Dickson, John Skekel, and Henry Higman, in which vessel, employed in the Downs and Baltic, he came into contact with a Danish flotilla in the Little Belt – 17 Aug. 1812 (after four months of half-pay) to the Semiramis 36, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Chas. Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope, where he remained until Aug. 1814 – 23 June, 1823, for nearly four years, to the Cambridge 82, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling, on the South American station – and 16 Oct. 1843 and 11 July, 1844, as First, to the Tartarus and Porcupine steam surveying- vessels, Capts. Horatio Thos. Austin, Jas. Wolfe, and Fred. Bullock. He has been on half-pay since June, 1846.
He married, 4 Dec. 1827, Leonora Maria, only daughter of the late Thos. Rowcroft, first Consul-General for Peru. Agent – J. Hinxman.
ROBINSON. (Commander, 1794. f-p., 19; h-p., 61.)
Charles Robinson is uncle of Commander Thos. Pitt Robinson, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in April, 1767, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Fury, Capt. Mark Robinson, under whom, after serving for more than six years on the coast of North America, he was employed on the Home station, as Midshipman, in the Worcester 64 and Shrewsbury 74, from Nov. 1774, until made Lieutenant, 12 Feb. 1780, into the Terrible, Capts. John Douglas and John Dixon, attached to the force in the West Indies. He was placed on half-pay in June of the latter year; and was subsequently appointed – in Feb. 1781 and March, 1782, to the Shrewsbury,[1] Capts. M. Robinson, John Colpoys, and John Knight, and Nymph, Capts. John Ford and Edw. Knatchbull, in which vessels he again, until June, 1783, served on the American and West India stations – 24 June, 1790, to the Swiftsure 74, Capt. Sir Jas. Wallace, with whom he continued, in the Channel, until Oct. 1791 – and 23 Jan. and 14 Nov. 1793, to the Princess Royal 98 and Victory 100, flag-ships of Admirals Sam. Cranston Goodall and Lord Hood in the Mediterranean, where he was present at the occupation of Toulon. On 5 April, 1794, he was made Commander Into the Scout 16; in which vessel he was captured by two French frigates, off Bona, in the following Aug. He was restored to liberty, we believe, in Nov. 1795; and did not afterwards go afloat. He was admitted into the Royal Hospital at Greenwich 27 Aug. 1840.
Commander Robinson is the senior officer of his rank in the Navy. One of his sons, Chas. Cowling Robinson, is a Lieutenant R.N.; and another, Dan. Robinson, a First-Lieutenant R.M., and a Colonel in the Spanish service. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
ROBINSON. (Lieut., 1809. f-p., 12; h-p., 33.)
Charles Robinson (a) is son of the late Rear-Admiral Hugh Robinson; and brother of Lieut. Thos. Robinson, R.N. (1819), who died 6 May, 1838, at Clifton, near York.
This officer entered the Navy,,11 Nov. 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Caroline of 42 guns, Capts. Benj. Wm. Page, Peter Rainier, and Henry Hart. Under Capt. Page he assisted, during his passage to the East Indies, at the capture of several French vessels and at the detention of two others belonging to the Batavian republic – one of them, the De Haasje brig-of-war. On his arrival in India he aided, under the same officer, in taking, 5 Jan. and 4 Feb. 1804, the privateers Les Frères Unis of 8 guns (pierced for 16) and 134 men, and Le Général de Caen of 22 guns and 200 men. Under Capt. Rainier it was his fortune to be present, 18 Oct. 1806, at the capture, near the island of Java, of the Dutch 14-gun brig Zeerop and, in the course of the same day, after an action of half an hour, of the Maria Riggersbergen of 40 guns and 270 men, 50 of whom were killed and wounded, with a loss to the Caroline, out of 204 men, of 3 killed and 18 wounded. In company with the Maria Riggersbergen were the William 14, Patriot 18, and Zee-Ploeg 14, together with some gun-boats, who partially assisted her: 30 other gun-boats lay in-shore, but did not attempt to come out. On 27 Jan. 1807 Mr. Robinson further contributed to the capture of the St. Raphael Spanish register-ship, mounting 16 guns, with a complement of 97 men, having on board 500,000 dollars in specie and 1700 quintals of copper, besides a valuable cargo. In securing this rich prize the Caroline had 7 men wounded; the enemy’s vessel, before she surrendered, incurred a loss of 27 killed and wounded. After serving for 16 months, part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Duncan 36, Capts. Thos. Groube, Wm. Wells, and Edw. Tucker, still in the East Indies, Mr. Robinson was nominated, 14 Jan. 1809, Acting-Lieutenant of the Victor sloop, Capt. Edw. Stopford. He was officially promoted on 13 of the following Nov., in the course of which month the Victor was taken by the French frigate La Bellone. Being at the time absent in a prize, he escaped sharing in that catastrophe; and in the following May, after he had been borne as a Supernumerary on the books of the Doris 36, Procris 18, and Clorinde 38, Capts. Christ. Cole, Robt. Maunsell, and Thos. Briggs, he returned to England. His last appointments were – 8 Dec. 1810 and 3 April 1811, to the Magnet 16 and Prospero 18, Capts. John Smith and John Hardy Godby, both in the North Sea – 7 Jan. 1813, to the San Josef 110, Capts. Henry Bourchier and Wm. Stewart, in which ship he fought under the flag of Sir Rich. King in Sir Edw. Pellew’s partial actions with the Toulon fleet 5 Nov. 1813 and 13 Feb. 1814 – 23 Jan. 1815 (having paid the San Josef off as First-Lieutenant in the preceding Aug.) to the Puissant 74, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page, lying at Spithead – and 8 May following, to the Désirée 36, Capt. Wm. Woolridge, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Fras. Fremantle on the Guernsey station, where he was actively employed during the hundred days’ war, and assisted at the capture of La Ville d’Anvers praam. He left the Désirée 29 Aug. 1815.
ROBINSON. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 8; h-p., 36.)
Charles Cowling Robinson, born 20 July, 1790, is son of Commander Chas. Robinson, R.N.
- ↑ Part of the fleet engaged under Rear-Admiral Graves in the action with the Comte de Grasse, off Cape Henry, 5 Sept. 1781.
