Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet

Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet (19 November 1655 – 22 December 1736), 1st Baronet of Newby-on-Swale, Yorkshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1689 and 1722.

[1] He was Captain of the Bulmer Troop, North Riding Militia Horse, from December 1688 and was associated with Danby's rising during the Glorious Revolution.

[3][4] Robinson was returned as Member of Parliament for Northallerton on his own interest at the 1689 English general election.

His uncle Metcalfe Robinson had been created a baronet in 1660, but died without issue in 1689, so that the baronetcy became extinct.

His fourth son, Thomas served as Secretary of State for the Southern Department and Leader of the House of Commons, and was raised to the peerage as Baron Grantham in 1761.