Charles Gepp Robinson

Charles Gepp Robinson (3 December 1805 – 31 October 1875) was a Royal Navy Officer and hydrographic surveyor particularly noted for his survey work in the west of Scotland.

The survey cost the lives of more than half of the crew due to tropical diseases, and Robinson was one of the few officers to return alive to England.

This turned out not to be true, and mortality due to fever was as high as on the previous trip, but again Robinson was one of the few to survive, as did Owen and his family who accompanied him.

[2] From March 1829 to April 1835 he served in various ships as assistant to Henry Mangles Denham surveying the coasts of Wales and western England.

A memorial in St. Michael's churchyard of Dumfries recorded the deaths of two young sons of Charles Gepp Robinson, with the inscription: "Rest, my beloved boys.