John Beverley Robinson

[2] During the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, Robinson served as aide-de-camp to Sir Francis Bond Head.

She married, 1881, William Forsyth-Grant, Esquire, formerly Captain of H.M.'s 82nd Regiment, son of William Forsyth, Esquire, of Ecclesgreig Castle, County Kincardine, Scotland, J. P. and D.L., who, in 1842, assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Grant (Chad-wick).

She contributed to periodicals and newspapers and authored a travel book "Scenes in Hawaii, or Life in the Sandwich Islands."

The couple's youngest daughter Augusta Louisa, sang in London at public concerts, in company with other artists, and was also on tour in the Provinces.

She frequently sang at Government House and subsequently took vocal instruction in London, from Randegger, and in Paris, from Laborde.

Augusta Louisa returned to Canada in 1895, and sang on tour with Emma Albani, Pol Plançon, Harry Plunket Greene, and Allan James Foley.

Sir John Robinson, father of John Beverley Robinson, by George Theodore Berthon, c. 1846
Augusta Louise (Robinson) Houston