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ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845 )

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 423 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845 ) ,
South
 
African
  mine-owner, was born at Cradock, Cape Colony, in 1845. At the age of sixteen he started business as a general trader, wool-buyer and stock-breeder, but on the discovery of diamonds in
South
  Africa in 1867 he hastened to the Vaal river
district
 , where, by purchasing the stones from the natives and afterwards by buying diamond-bearing land, notably at Kimberley, he soon acquired a considerable fortune. He was mayor of Kimberley in 188o, and for four years was a representative of Griqualand West in the Cape
parliament
 . On the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand
district
  in 1886. Robinson
purchased
  the Langlaagte and Randfontein estates, His views as to the westerly trend of the main gold-bearing
reef
  were entirely contrary to the bulk of South
African
 
opinion
  at the time, but events proved him to be correct, and the enormous appreciation in value of his various properties made him one of the richest men in South Africa. As a Rand capitalist he stood aloof from combinations with other gold-mining interests, and took no
part
  in the Johannesburg reform
movement
 , maintaining friendly relations with President Kruger. He claimed that it was as the result of his representations after the Jameson Raid that Kruger appointed the Industrial Commission of 1897, whose recommendationshad they been carried outwould have remedied some of the Uitlander grievances. In 1908 he was created a
baronet
 .


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