| | | | |Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge. He had 12
| | | | |children, 9 of whom survived.
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| | | | |ELIZABETH, dau. of Councillor Robert Drake (of the
| | | | |Drakes of Ash, Devon), and sister and heir of her
| | | | |brother, Morris Drake Morris, of Coveney, Cambridge,
| | | | |and Mount Morris, in the parish of Horton, near Hythe,
| | | | |Kent; m. 1712; d. 1744; buried at Monk’s Horton.
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| | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.1 MATTHEW ROBINSON, b. April 6,
| | | | | |1713; bap. at York, April 12, 1713. Educated at
| | | | | |Trinity Hall, Cambridge; graduated 1734; became a
| | | | | |Fellow; elected M.P. for Canterbury, July 1, 1747;
| | | | | |re-elected, 1754; between these dates assumed the
| | | | | |additional name of Morris, on inheriting his mother’s
| | | | | |property at Mount Morris, near Hythe, Kent;
| | | | | |d. Nov. 30, 1800; buried at Monk’s Horton, Dec. 8,
| | | | | |_ætat_ 87. Became 2nd Baron of Rokeby on the death of
| | | | | |his cousin, the Archbishop of Armagh, in 1794. Author
| | | | | |of several political pamphlets.
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| | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.2 THOMAS ROBINSON, barrister of
| | | | | |Lincoln’s Inn, b. 1714. Wrote a treatise on
| | | | | |_Gavelkind_ and borough English in 1741, of which
| | | | | |there have been three or more editions. d. 1747;
| | | | | |unmarried.
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| | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.3 MORRIS ROBINSON, of Lincoln’s Inn
| | | | | |Fields and of the Six Clerks’ Office, b. 1715; d. in
| | | | | |Dublin, 1777, _ætat_ 61; buried in Armagh
| | | | | |Cathedral. He was solicitor in Chancery and agent to
| | | | | |John, Duke of Montagu, etc.
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| | | | | |JANE GREENLAND, dau. of John Greenland, of Lovelace,
| | | | | |co. Kent, and his wife, _née_ Jane Waller, of
| | | | | |Kingsgate House, Rolveden, Kent.
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| | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.3.1 MORRIS ROBINSON, b. July 14,
| | | | | | |1757; bap. in the parish of St. Andrew’s, Holborn;
| | | | | | |barrister of the Middle Temple; succeeded his
| | | | | | |uncle, Matthew, as 3rd Baron Rokeby, in 1800. He
| | | | | | |died, unmarried, in 1829, _ætat_ 71.
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| | | | | +-|1.2.1.1.1.8.1.1.3.2 MATTHEW MONTAGU, b. Nov. 23,
| | | | | |1762; bap. at St. Andrew’s, Holborn; assumed the
| | | | | |name and arms of Montagu by virtue of the King’s
| | | | | |Sign Manual, June 3, 1776, and Dec.
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