Douglas Robinson Sr. (March 24, 1824 – November 30, 1893)[1] was a Scottish-American banker and businessman who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age.
[4] He was the younger brother of Sir William Rose Robinson, KCSI, who served as acting Governor of Madras.
"[8] After studying at Edinburgh University,[9] eighteen year old Robinson emigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1842.
[14][15] Cruger was an eccentric lady known for her many friendships with prominent people of her time, including Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, William Wordsworth, Juliette Récamier, and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette.
[16] Around 1872, the Robinson's came to West Orange, New Jersey and built a large home next door to General George McClellan.
[8] Together, they were the parents of two children:[20] Robinson died on November 30, 1893, aboard the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II (1889), a Lloyd passenger steamer, while sailing from New York.
William Higgin Beauchamp Yerburgh (1885–1937) in 1925; and Ursula Margaret Wolryche-Whitmore, who in 1934 married Sir Oswald Arthur Scott, K.C.M.G.