Henry Robinson
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Henry Robinson may refer to:
  • Henry Robinson (bishop)
    Henry Robinson (bishop)
    Henry Robinson was an English priest, Bishop of Carlisle from 1598 to 1616. He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford, where he was elected fellow in 1575 and received his DD in 1590. He was Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1576–1581, and then Provost of The Queen's College,...

     (1553–1616), Bishop of Carlisle, 1598–1616
  • Henry Robinson (writer)
    Henry Robinson (writer)
    Henry Robinson was an English merchant and writer. He is best known for a work on religious toleration, Liberty of Conscience from 1644.-Life:He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, and was a freeman of the Mercers' Company...

     (c.1604–1664), English writer on religious tolerance
  • Henry Crabb Robinson
    Henry Crabb Robinson
    Henry Crabb Robinson , diarist, was born in Bury St. Edmunds, England.He was articled to an attorney in Colchester. Between 1800 and 1805 he studied at various places in Germany, and became acquainted with nearly all the great men of letters there, including Goethe, Schiller, Johann Gottfried...

     (1775–1867), British diarist
  • Henry Peach Robinson
    Henry Peach Robinson
    Henry Peach Robinson was an English pictorialist photographer best known for his pioneering combination printing - joining multiple negatives to form a single image, the precursor to photomontage...

     (1830–1901), British photographer
  • Sir Henry Augustus Robinson (1857–1927), Irish civil servant
  • Henry Robinson (scientist), Librarian of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society
    Yorkshire Philosophical Society
    The Yorkshire Philosophical Society is a charitable learned society aimed at promoting the natural sciences, archaeology and history. The society was formed in York in December 1822 by James Atkinson, William Salmond, Anthony Thorpe and William Vernon....

     and co-worker with John Phillips (geologist)
    John Phillips (geologist)
    John Phillips FRS was an English geologist.- Life and work :Philips was born at Marden in Wiltshire...

  • Henry Morton Robinson
    Henry Morton Robinson
    Henry Morton Robinson was an American novelist, best known for A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake written with Joseph Campbell and his 1950 novel The Cardinal, which Time magazine reported was "The year's most popular book, fiction or nonfiction."-Biography:Robinson was born in Boston and graduated...

     (1898–1961), American novelist
  • Henry Robinson (cricketer)
    Henry Robinson (cricketer)
    Henry Basil Oswin Robinson is a former Canadian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and an off-break bowler. He played 19 first-class matches for Oxford University in 1947 and 1948. Later, he played five first-class matches for Canada in the 1950s...

     (born 1919), Canadian cricketer
  • Henry Robinson (Yorkshire cricketer)
    Henry Robinson (Yorkshire cricketer)
    Henry Robinson was an English first-class cricketer, who played one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club against Derbyshire, at the County Ground, Derby, in 1879. Batting down the order, Robinson scored 4 and 1...

    , cricketer
  • Henry Berthold Spike Robinson
    Spike Robinson
    Henry Berthold "Spike" Robinson was a tenor saxophonist. He began playing at age twelve, making recordings with famous jazz and bop musicians on several labels including Discovery, Hep and Concord. However, he sought an engineering degree and followed that profession on a fulltime basis for nearly...

     (1930–2001), jazz saxophonist

See also

  • Harry Robinson (disambiguation)
  • Robinson (name)
    Robinson (name)
    Robinson is an English language patronymic surname, originating in England. It means "son of Robin ". There are similar surname spellings such as Robison and Robeson. Robinson is the 15th most common surname in the United Kingdom...

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