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unusual facts about Thomas Robinson


Ranelagh Gardens

In 1741, the house and grounds were purchased by a syndicate led by the proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Sir Thomas Robinson MP, and the Gardens opened to the public the following year.


11th Parliament of Great Britain

The Old Corps Whig Thomas Robinson held that office until late 1755, when the Bedfordite Henry Fox replaced him.

Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter

The Cecil family fostered arts; they supported musicians such as William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Robinson.


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Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough

he secretly married Anastasia Robinson (ca. 1695–1755), a famous dramatic singer (from 1714) of great beauty and sweetness of disposition, daughter of Thomas Robinson (died 1722), a portrait painter; but she was at first unrecognized as his wife, and lived apart from him (regarded merely as his mistress) with her two sisters at Parson's Green.

Marquess of Ripon

Thomas Robinson was a prominent diplomat and politician and served as Ambassador to the Austrian Empire, as Secretary of State for the Southern Department and as Leader of the House of Commons.

Thomas Robinson Stadium

Some days later, Bahamas Football Association current president Anton Sealey said the reason was due to the incomplete construction of Thomas Robinson Stadium project, in Nassau.