Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London

Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London (10 January 1615 – February 1680) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1667.

[1] He was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers.

On 18 December 1655 he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Dowgate ward.

[2] Samuel Pepys wrote of Robinson as "a talking bragging bufflehead .

However an account of the aldermen in 1672 said "he hath been most industrious in the civill government of the cittie, watchfull to prevent anything that might reflect any prejudice or dishonour upon the King's government, happy in dispatch of businesse, to the great contentment of the people.