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'''Thomas Robinson''' (1790 – 17 May 1873) was an English churchman and academic. He became [[Archdeacon]] of [[Madras]] in 1826,<ref>"The last days of Bishop Heber" by his Chaplain, Thomas Robinson advertisement in [[The Times]] (London, England), Friday, May 06, 1831; pg. 7; Issue 14532</ref> [[Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic]] at Cambridge in 1837, and [[Master of the Temple]] in 1845.<br />
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==Life==<br />
Robinson was the youngest son of [[Thomas Robinson (1749–1813)]]. He was educated at [[Rugby School]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where he matriculated as a scholar in 1809. In 1810 he gained the first Bell scholarship, and he graduated B.A. in 1813. He proceeded M.A. in 1816, was admitted [[ad eundem]] at Oxford in 1839, and graduated D.D. in 1844.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Robinson, Thomas (1790-1873)|volume=49}}</ref><ref>{{acad|id=RBN808T|name=Robinson, Thomas}}</ref><br />
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Robinson was ordained deacon in 1815 and priest in 1816, then going out as a missionary to India. He was appointed chaplain on the Bombay establishment, and was stationed first at [[Seroor]] and then at [[Poonah]]. He attracted the notice of [[Thomas Fanshaw Middleton]], and in 1825 he was appointed chaplain to Middleton's successor, [[Reginald Heber]]. He was present at [[Trichinopoly]] on 2 April 1826, when Heber was drowned, and preached and published a funeral sermon. Before the end of 1826 he was made Archdeacon of Madras.<ref name="DNB"/><br />
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In 1837 Robinson was appointed Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. In 1845 he was elected Master of the Temple, and in 1847 was appointed Prebendary of Mora with a stall in [[St Paul's Cathedral]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18471116/032/0003|title = }}</ref> In 1853 was presented to the rectory of [[Therfield]], Hertfordshire. In the following year he was made canon of [[Rochester Cathedral]], resigning his professorship at Cambridge. He gave up his rectory in 1860, and the mastership of the Temple in 1869, being succeeded by [[Charles John Vaughan]].<ref name="DNB"/><br />
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Robinson died at the Precincts, Rochester, on 13 May 1873.<ref name="DNB"/><br />
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==Works==<br />
Early in his time in India, Robinson was engaged in translating the [[Old Testament]] into Persian. The first part, ''The History of Joseph from the Pentateuch'', appeared in 1825, and two others, ''Isaiah to Malachi'' and ''Chronicles to Canticles'', in 1837 and 1838. Other works were:<ref name="DNB"/><br />
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*''Discourses on the Evidences of Christianity'', Calcutta, 1819, dedicated to Thomas Fanshaw Middleton.<br />
*''The Last Days of Bishop Heber'', Madras, 1829.<br />
*''On the Study of Oriental Literature'', 1838, inaugural lecture delivered on 22 May 1838.<br />
*''The Character of St. Paul the Model of the Christian Ministry'', Cambridge, 1840.<br />
*''The Twin Fallacies of Rome, Supremacy and Infallibility'', London, 1851.<br />
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==Family==<br />
Robinson was first married in 1816, to Esther Eleanor, by [[Charles Simeon]].<ref>''Cambridge Chronicle and Journal''<br />
3 May 1816</ref> She died at Therfield on 3 July 1855.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iA9IAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA222|year=1855|publisher=W. Pickering|page=222}}</ref> He was survived by his wife Mary, and by two sons who were clerics, Charles Edward Ricketts (born in Madras 1829, died 1881), and Thomas (died 1895) who was a [[Cambridge Apostle]] and Head Master of Potsdam School, Jamaica.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=23882|first=Elizabeth|last=Baigent|title=Robinson, Thomas}}</ref><ref>{{acad|id=RBN836T|name=Robinson, Thomas}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=W. C. Lubenow|author-link = W. C. Lubenow|title=The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sy8Ym9N3tgUC&pg=PA255|date=29 October 1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-57213-2|page=255}}</ref><br />
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