Thomas B. Robinson

Sir Thomas Bilbe Robinson (24 November 1853–15 May 1939) was an English-born Australian businessman and public servant.

Robinson was born in Rotherhithe, London, the son and grandson of shipbuilders.

His father was Robert William Robinson and his mother was Frances Sarah, daughter of Thomas Bilbe.

During the First World War, the Board of Trade gave him the responsibility of procuring and distributing frozen meat to the Allied Forces.

This job he carried out exceptionally well, and by the end of the war he had dealt with 3,500,000 tons of meat, the largest quantity that had been handled by a single organisation at any time in history to date.