GRANTHAM, THOMAS ROBINSON

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GRANTHAM, THOMAS ROBINSON , 1st BARON (c. 1695-1770), English diplomatist and politician, was a younger son of Sir William Robinson, Bart. (16551736) of Newby, Yorkshire, who was member of parliament for

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

from 1697 to 1722. Having been a scholar and

minor

fellow of Trinity College,

Cambridge

, Thomas Robinson gained his earliest diplomatic experience in Paris and then went to Vienna, where he was English

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

from 1730 to 1748. During 1741 he sought to make peace between the empress Maria Theresa and Frederick the Great, but in vain, and in 1748 he represented his country at the congress of Aix-la-Chapelle. Returning to England he sat in parliament for Christchurch from 1749 to 1761. In 1754 Robinson was appointed a secretary of state and leader of the

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Commons by the prime minister, the duke of Newcastle, and it was on this occasion that Pitt made the famous remark to Fox, " the duke might as well have sent us his jackboot to lead us." In November 1755 he resigned, and in April 1761 he was created Baron Grantham. He was master of the wardrobe from 1749 to 1754 and again from 1755 to 1760, and was joint postmaster-general in 1765 and 1766. He died in London on the 3oth of September 1770.
Grantham's elder son, THOMAS ROBINSON (17381786), who became the and baron, was born at Vienna on the 3oth of November 1738. Educated at Westminster School and at Christ's College,

Cambridge

, he entered parliament as member for Christ-church in 1761, and succeeded to the peerage in 1770. In 1771 he was sent as

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

to Madrid and retained this post until war broke out between England and Spain in 1779. From 178o to 1782 Grantham was first

commissioner

COMMISSIONER

of the board of trade and foreign plantations, and from July 1782 to April 1783 secretary for the foreign department under Lord Shelburne. .He died on the 20th of July 1786, leaving two sons, Thomas Philip, who became the 3rd baron, and Frederick John after-wards 1st

earl

EARL

of Ripon.

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