William Robson, Baron Robson

William Snowdon Robson, Baron Robson, GCMG, PC (10 September 1852 – 11 September 1918) was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons twice between 1885 and 1910.

Robson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the son of Robert Robson merchant of Newcastle-on-Tyne and his wife Emily Jane Snowden, daughter of William Snowden of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

[1] He was educated at Newcastle and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

[8] He was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George as a Knight Grand Cross (GCMG) in the 1911 New Year Honours for "services in connection with the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration".

Robson died, aged 66, at Telham Court, Battle, Sussex.

William Robson c1895
William Robson c1905
"The Solicitor General"
Robson as caricatured by Spy ( Leslie Ward ) in Vanity Fair , January 1906