Lloyd Robson

[2] During the 1950s Robson undertook postgraduate study at the University of London, where he met and married his first wife, Margaret Ilona Horden.

[2] His thesis examined convicts transported to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land in 1787–1852.

[1] There he taught mostly Australian history, and supervised students undertaking higher degrees by research.

[2] He pioneered techniques of quantitative history,[1] as evidenced in his doctoral thesis and his later work, The First AIF (1970).

The funeral was held at the Uniting Church, Penguin, Tasmania, and he was buried in the old cemetery overlooking the town.