John Freind Robinson, 1st Baronet (born Freind; 15 February 1754 – 16 April 1832) was

Archdeacon of Armagh The Archdeacon of Armagh is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Anglican Diocese of Armagh. The Archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within the Diocese. History The archdeaconry can trace its history ...

from 1786 until his resignation in 1797.

Life

Robinson was the son of Dean

William Freind William Freind (c.1715–1766) was an 18th-century Church of England clergyman who was Dean of Canterbury from 1760 to 1766. Life He was the son of Robert Freind, headmaster of Westminster School and Jane, daughter of Samuel de L'Angle, prebend ...

;

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, ''Some Account of the Deans of Canterbury'', Canterbury, 1793, pp. 219-224. nephew of Archbishop

Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby (1708 – 10 October 1794), was an Anglo-Irish churchman. Life He was a younger son of William Robinson (died 1720) of Rokeby, Yorkshire and later of Merton, Surrey and Anne Walters (died 1730), daughter a ...

, and grandson of

Robert Freind Robert Freind (1667–1751) was an English clergyman and headmaster of Westminster School. Life Freind, eldest son of the Rev. William Freind (also Friend), rector of Croughton, Northamptonshire, was born there, and at an early age was sent to W ...

, headmaster of

Westminster School Westminster School is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in Westminster, London, England, in the precincts of Westminster Abbey. It descends from a charity school founded by Westminster Benedictines before the Norman Conquest, as do ...

. His mother was Grace Robinson and Freind became heir to her brother, who was created Baron Rokeby. Freind was born in

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, and was educated at Westminster School, and then

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. On 3 January 1774, he was appointed by his uncle, with his elder brother the Reverend William Maximilian Friend, as a Registrar of the Prerogative Court. In 1821 he resigned and was immediately re-appointed to the same position which was then granted to him for his life by Archbishop William Stuart on 25 April 1821. He was

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is a village, townland (of 375 acres) an ...

in Armagh Cathedral from 1778 to 1786; Archdeacon of Armagh from 1786 to 1797 and

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from 1797 to 1823. Freind assumed, by sign manual, the surname of Robinson in 1793 to succeed to the estates of his uncle, Baron Rokeby. He was created a

baronet A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th ...

on 14 October 1819.

Family

Freind married in 1786 Mary Anne Spencer, daughter of James Spencer of Rathangan,

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; they had a large family.

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R.N. was one of the sons. His second eldest son, the Reverend William Robinson (1793-1834) married Susanna Sophia Flower, daughter of

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. One of his daughters, Frances Robinson (1803-1886) married

Henry Jeffrey Flower, 5th Viscount Ashbrook Henry Jeffrey Flower, 5th Viscount Ashbrook was an Anglo-Irish peer. The son of Henry Jeffrey Flower, 4th Viscount Ashbrook and Deborah Susanna Friend, he was born on the 17th June 1806. He was High Sheriff of County Kilkenny in 1834. He suc ...

. Another daughter, Selina Robinson (1807-1873) married the Reverend Sewell Hamilton, and their daughter, Gertrude Sophia Hamilton, married

Robert Thomas Flower, 8th Viscount Ashbrook Robert Thomas Flower, 8th Viscount Ashbrook (1 April 1836 – 9 March 1919) was an Anglo-Irish peer, Militia officer, and inventor. Biography Early life Robert Thomas Flower was born on 1 April 1836 at Castle Durrow, Durrow, County Laois, Ir ...

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1754 births 1832 deaths 18th-century Irish Anglican priests 19th-century Irish Anglican priests Archdeacons of Armagh Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom People from Witney People educated at Westminster School, London {{England-reli-bio-stub