In 1862 he was awarded a Royal Medal "for the Armagh catalogue of 5345 stars, deduced from observations made at the Armagh Observatory, from the years 1820 up to 1854; for his papers on the construction of astronomical instruments in the memoirs of the Astronomical Society, and his paper on electromagnets in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy".
Častiti John Thomas Romney Robinson, irski astronom in fizik, * 23. april 1792, Dublin, Irska, † 28. februar 1882, Armagh, Irska.