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ROBINSON, Matthew, Baron ROKEBY, born near Hythe, Kent County, England, in 1713; died 30 November, 1800. He was educated at Westminster and Cambridge, and elected to parliament from Canterbury in 1747 and 1754. He led a life of primitive simplicity, and was an enthusiast for liberty, and the measures for the coercion of the American colonies were especially repugnant to his sense of justice. He succeeded his uncle, Richard Robinson, archbishop of Armagh, as Baron Rokeby in the peerage of Ireland on 10 October, 1794. He published " Considerations on the Measures Carrying on with respect to the British Colonies in North America" (2d ed., London, 1774); "Considerations on the British Colonies " (1775) ; "A Further Examination of our American Measures" (1776); and " Peace the Best Policy" (1777).
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