page_title: Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Gatehouse to the outer grounds of Auckland Castle — in County Durham.
context_page_description: Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Rokeby, Yorkshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734 and a Governor of Barbados. He was an architect, collector and an extravagant character, whose life was the inspiration for numerous anecdotes.
context_section_description: Robinson designed for his wife's brother the west wing of Castle Howard. Later in life he and Welbore Ellis persuaded Sir William Stanhope to "improve" Alexander Pope's garden.
  Among Robinson's other works are parts of Ember Court, Surrey, then the residence of the Onslows, the new parish church at Glynde in Sussex, and the Gothic gateway at Bishop Auckland in Durham. He worked also on Claydon House for The 2nd Earl of Verney, a business associate through Ranelagh Gardens.
  Robinson left his brother William his title but not his estates. His other brother, Archbishop Lord Rokeby, had his books, including those on architecture and antiquities.
  Robinson and Lord Chesterfield maintained a correspondence for fifty years, and he kept all the letters and copies. At his death he left them to an apothecary who had married his natural daughter, with instructions to publish; but Robinson's brother, Archbishop Lord Rokeby, stopped the publication. Sir John Hawkins recorded in his Life of Johnson that when Chesterfield wanted to appease Samuel Johnson, he employed Robinson as his mediator.
caption: Gateway at Auckland Castle, design of Thomas Robinson for Richard Trevor
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