John Robinson (Harwich MP)

[2] Robinson acquired property and local influence, by marriage and inheritance, and Sir James Lowther made him his principal law agent and land steward.

Robinson resigned the post of law agent to the Lowther estates, and was succeeded in it by his first cousin, John Wordsworth, the poet's father.

While in office he was the chief ministerial agent in carrying on the business of parliament, and he was the medium of communication between the ministry and its supporters.

He brought, on 3 July 1777 an action against Henry Sampson Woodfall, printer of the Public Advertiser for libel, in accusing him of sharing in government contracts, and obtained a verdict of forty shillings and costs.

After their quarrel Robinson offered his estates in Westmorland (including burgage tenures in Appleby) to Lowther, who didn't want them, and sold nearly the whole property for £29,000 to Sackville Tufton, 8th Earl of Thanet, who thus acquired an interest in the parliamentary representation.

[2] About 1778 Robinson purchased a property in Middlesex from Peter William Baker,[4] Wyke Manor at Syon Hill, Isleworth, between Brentford and Osterley Park.

of Oxford on 9 July 1773; he declined a peerage in 1784, but in December 1787 William Pitt the Younger appointed him surveyor-general of woods and forests.

Their only child Mary Robinson was baptised at St. Lawrence Church, Appleby, on 24 March 1759, and married, at Isleworth on 3 October 1781, the Hon.

After his death his accounts were called for, and it was some time before they were passed, and the embargo placed by the crown on the transfer of his Isleworth property to George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey removed.

[2] Robinson's correspondence and official papers, including many communications from George III, went to the Marquis of Abergavenny at Eridge Castle.

[7][8][9] One of the proprietors was William Birmingham Costello;[10] later physicians there were John Stevenson Bushnan and then Robert Gardiner Hill.