Ralph Robinson (minister)
Ralph Robinson may refer to: * Ralph Robinson (humanist) of the sixteenth century * Ralph Robinson (clergyman) of the seventeenth century * George III of the United Kingdom George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Monarchy of Ireland, Ireland from 25 October 1760 until Acts of Union 1800, the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was ...

Ralph Robinson (humanist)
Ralph Robinson (1520–1577) was an English scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his English translation of Sir Thomas More's ''Utopia'', originally written in Latin in 1516. Life Robinson was educated at Stamford School, Lincolnshire and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.John Bennell‘Robinson, Ralph (1520–1577)’ ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 22 December 2008 At school he was a contemporary of William Cecil later Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer of England and chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I, and the foreword of his translation, which is dedicated to Burghley, alludes to their school-days together. He graduated B.A. in 1540, and was elected fellow of his college Corpus on 16 June 1542. In March 1544 he supplicated for the degree of M.A. Coming to London, he obtained the livery of the Goldsmiths' Company, and a small post as clerk in the service of his early friend, Cecil. Fr ...
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Ralph Robinson (clergyman)
Ralph Robinson (1614–1655) was an English minister of presbyterian views, arrested as implicated in the plot of Christopher Love to restore the Stuart monarchy. Life He born at Heswall, Cheshire, in June 1614, and was educated at St Catharine Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) 1638, and Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab) 1642. On the strength of his preaching he was invited to St. Mary's Woolnoth, Lombard Street, London, and there received presbyterian ordination about 1642. He was scribe to the first assembly of provincial ministers held in London in 1647, and united with them in the protest against the execution of Charles I in 1649. On 11 June 1651 he was arrested on a charge of being concerned in the conspiracy of Christopher Love. He was next day committed to the Tower of London The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in cent ...
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