15-502: George Robinson may refer to: Politics and government [ edit ] George Robinson (1687–1728) , British Member of Parliament for Tregony Sir George Robinson, 5th Baronet (1730–1815) of Cranford, British landowner and politician George Robinson (Pittsburgh) (fl. 1794-c. 1800), first Chief Burgess of the borough of Pittsburgh Sir George Robinson, 1st Baronet (1758–1832) of Batts House, Somerset, British MP and Chairman of
30-438: A pot could be boiled was entitled to vote. The apparently democratic nature of this arrangement was a delusion in a borough as small and poor as Tregony, where the residents could not afford to defy their landlord and, indeed, regarded their vote as a means of income. Many of the houses in the borough were built purely for political purposes, and the borough itself was bought and sold for its political value on numerous occasions. In
45-690: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tregony (UK Parliament constituency) Tregony was a rotten borough in Cornwall which was represented in the Model Parliament of 1295, and returned two Members of Parliament to the English and later British Parliament continuously from 1562 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act . The borough consisted of
60-794: The 1720s and early 1730s George Robinson (bookseller) (1736–1801). English bookseller and publisher George Augustus Robinson (1791–1866), builder and preacher in Australia George W. Robinson (1814–1878), leader during the early history of the Latter Day Saint movement George Thomas Robinson (1827–1897), English architect George F. Robinson (1832–1907), U.S. Army soldier who save Sec. of State Seward from assassination George Livingston Robinson (1863–1958), author, biblical scholar, explorer, and lecturer George Drummond Robinson (1864–1950), British physician George T.O. Robinson (1922–2006), founding member of
75-597: The 1760s, Viscount Falmouth (head of the Boscawen family) influenced the nomination to one of the two seats and William Trevanion the other; later the Earl of Darlington controlled both seats, together with others in Cornwall, but by the time of the Great Reform Act the patronage had been transferred again, to James Adam Gordon . In 1831, the borough had a population of 1,127, and 234 houses. Nevertheless, because of
90-518: The Corporation obtained money from it by pawning false pledges, and proceeded to engage in a large scale speculation in the shares of that company and York Buildings Company , also borrowing against the shares purchased so that his partners failed to get what they bought. Robinson obtained a seat in the House of Commons when he was elected MP for Great Marlow in 1731, but was unable to sit before
105-675: The East India Company Sir George Robinson, 6th Baronet (1766–1833) of Cranford, British landowner and Member of Parliament Sir George Robinson, 2nd Baronet (1797–1855) of Batts House, Somerset, Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China George Richard Robinson , British Member of Parliament for Worcester and Poole, elected in 1826 and 1835 George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827–1909), British Liberal politician George M. Robinson , Free Soil Party member of
120-697: The Krio Descendants Union George Willard Robinson (born 1946), museum curator for whom georgerobinsonite is named George William Robinson (1815–1895), British entrepreneur in the Portuguese cork sector George Robinson (hedge fund manager) (born 1956), hedge fund manager and benefactor of Keble College, Oxford George Robinson, a 62-year-old black man killed on January 13, 2019, by police in Jackson, Mississippi [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
135-603: The Oklahoma Sooners George Robinson (rugby league) , Australian rugby league player Entertainment [ edit ] George Wade Robinson (1838–1877), poet and hymnist from Cork, Ireland George O. Robinson (fl. 1860), composer of "The Palmetto State Song" George Robinson (cinematographer) (1890–1958), Hollywood cinematographer George Robinson (actor) (born 1997), British actor Other people [ edit ] George Robinson (swindler) , English stockbroker and swindler in
150-1317: The Wisconsin State Assembly in 1850 George D. Robinson (1834–1896), Governor of Massachusetts George Robinson (Northern Ireland politician) (born 1941), Democratic Unionist Party politician George S. Robinson (born 1945), North Carolina legislator George A. Robinson , Canadian-American physician and politician Sports [ edit ] George Robinson (cricketer, born 1861) (1861–1944), played first-class cricket for Oxford University George Robinson (cricketer, born 1873) (1873–1930), English cricketer George Robinson (footballer, born 1878) (1878–1945), footballer for Nottingham Forest F.C. and Bradford City A.F.C. George Robinson (Australian footballer) (1901–1962), Australian rules footballer George Robinson (footballer, born 1908) (1908–1963), English footballer for Sunderland George Robinson (cricketer, born 1908) (1908–1967), English cricketer George Robinson (Australian cricketer) (1921–1999), Australian cricketer and doctor George Robinson (New Zealand footballer) (fl. 1947), New Zealand international footballer George Robinson (cricketer, born 1949) , English cricketer George Robinson (American football) (born 1986), offensive lineman for
165-685: The affair began to come to light. He fled to France with Thomson, the warehouse-keeper, in October. They were both declared bankrupt. Robinson was back by 25 November and appeared before the General Court of the Company. By 18 December, he was in hiding again because the Company would not supersede the Commission of bankruptcy against him. He had "seen fit to absent himself from the kingdom", according to William Goostry, his attorney. Robinson
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195-529: The town of Tregony . Like most of the Cornish boroughs enfranchised or re-enfranchised during the Tudor period , it was a settlement of little importance or wealth even to begin with, and was not incorporated as a municipal borough until sixty years after it began to return members to Parliament in 1563. Tregony was a potwalloper borough, meaning that every (male) householder with a separate fireplace on which
210-666: The wide franchise it had a comparatively large electorate for the time, between 260 and 300 voters. George Robinson (swindler) George Robinson was an English stockbroker and swindler in the 1720s and early 1730s. A banker in Lombard Street , he was appointed the circulating cashier of the Charitable Corporation . In 1727 he was one of the Corporation's 'Partnership of Five' (with Sir Alexander Grant, William Burroughs, William Squire and John Thomson ) who began buying up shares. He and several officers of
225-757: Was expelled from the House in absentia on 3 April 1732 for "indirect and fraudulent Practices in the Affairs of the Charitable Corporation, and for having never attended the Service of the House, although required to do so" . His estate at Moor Place, Great Marlow (with a farmhouse, 300 acres (1.2 km ) of land and 230 acres (0.93 km ) of woods) was advertised for sale in January 1734. An earlier advertisement had also mentioned Temple Mills and
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