Nicholas Kenneth Robinson (born 9 February 1946) is an Irish author, historian, solicitor and cartoonist who is the husband of the 7th President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson.
[1][2][3] Robinson was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1946, to a wealthy middle-class Anglican family.
His father was an accountant who founded the City of Dublin Bank and was a prominent freemason of the Grand Lodge of Ireland.
While studying for a law degree at Trinity College Dublin, he began a relationship with his future wife Mary Robinson (née Bourke), who would later become the President of Ireland.
[6] He spent 30 years curating a collection of social and political caricatures which he presented to the Library of Trinity College Dublin in 1996.