Bryan Robinson (judge)

Sir Bryan Robinson (14 January 1808 – 6 December 1887) was an Irish-born lawyer, judge and politician in Newfoundland.

He was born in Dublin, the son of Reverend Christopher Robinson, rector of Granard, and Elizabeth Langrishe, daughter of the politician Sir Hercules Langrishe and his wife Hannah Myhill, and was educated in Castleknock and at Trinity College Dublin.

His paternal grandfather, Sir Christopher Robinson, had been a distinguished judge in Ireland, and this may have influenced his own choice of the law as a career.

Robinson became part of the staff of Thomas John Cochrane, governor of Newfoundland, in 1828.

Robinson was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in 1831 and set up practice in Newfoundland.