ROBINSON, William (civil servant)
ROBINSON, William Rose. Midlothian 28.6.1822 — London 27.4.1886. Sir. British Civil Servant in India. Son of the elder W. R. Robinson (1781–1834), the Sheriff of Lanarkshire, and Mary Douglas (1783–1864), educated in Bonn. After Haileybury joined I.C.S. in 1842. In the 1840s Head Assistant Collector of Malabar, in 1847 inspected…