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Sir John Charles Robinson

1824 - 1913

This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.

Biographical notes

Museum curator and art collector.

Slavery connections

No known connections with slavery.

Abolition connections

No known connections with abolition.

National Gallery painting connections

Donor: presented in 1909: NG2442–2443 (now at Tate, N02442–2443).

Bibliography

H. Davies, 'Robinson, Sir John Charles', in J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T072455
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H. Davies, 'Robinson, Sir John Charles', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/35795
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History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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