F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, PC, styled The Honourable F. J. Robinson until 1827 and known between 1827 and 1833 as The Viscount Goderich, the name by which he is best known to history, was a British politician who served as Prime... Wikipedia
Born: November 1, 1782, Skelton-on-Ure, United Kingdom
Died: January 28, 1859 (age 76 years), Wimbledon and Putney Commons, London, United Kingdom
Party: Whigs
Previous offices: President of the Board of Control of a British East India Company (1843–1846), President of the Board of Trade of the United Kingdom (1841–1843), Lord Privy Seal of the United Kingdom (1833–1834), and more
Grandchildren: Oliver Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon and Mary Sarah Robinson
Children: George Frederick Samuel Robinson and Eleanor Robinson
Books: Bosquejo da Campagna de Portugal, etc. [Translated from “A Sketch of the Campaign in Portugal,” mainly by F. J. Robinson, Earl of Ripon.], Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. A Letter to ... Earl Bathurst, Lord Goderich, and the ... Bishop of London; in Refutation of Some of the Gross Misstatements Contained in the Newspaper Reports of Their Speeches in the House of Lords, on the Motion of ... Lord King, "For a Committee to be Appointed, to Inquire Into the Expenditure of the Public Money Granted to the Society," Etc, Four Letters [on the Catholic Question] Addressed to the Right Honorable the Chancellor of the Exechequer, &c. &c. &c. By a Lay Catholic of the Church of England, and more
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