Henry Crabb Robinson
Henry Crabb Robinson (13 May 1775 – 5 February 1867)
Life
Robinson was born in
After education at small private schools, he was articled in 1790 to an
On his return to London in 1809, Robinson decided to quit journalism and studied for the Bar, to which he was called in 1813, and became leader of the Eastern Circuit. Fifteen years later he retired, and by virtue of his conversation and qualities became a leader in society. He was one of the founders of the London University (now University College London)[4] and travelled several times to Italy, as many of his contemporaries did. Among those whom he befriended in Rome in 1829 was the novelist Sarah Burney.
Robinson died unmarried, aged 91. He was buried in a vault in Highgate Cemetery alongside his friend Edwin Wilkins Field.[5] A bust of Crabb Robinson was made, and a portrait by Edward Armitage.[6]
Works
Robinson's Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence was published posthumously in 1869.
In 1829, Robinson was made a fellow of the
His diaries were bequeathed to Dr Williams's Library, because Robinson had been a member of the Essex Street Chapel, the first avowedly Unitarian congregation in England.
References
- ^ "Henry Crabb Robinson". Britannica.
- ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 9788495892676.
- ^ "The Four Founders of UCL". University College London. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ Rigg, James McMullen (1897). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 173, 174. . In
- ^ a b Rae, William Fraser (1897). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
sources: Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, by Thomas Sadler; Letters of Charles Lamb, ed. Ainger.
- ^ Cousin 1910, p. 319.
- ^ Symons, Arthur (1907). "Appendix: Extracts from the Diary, Letters, and Reminiscences of Henry Crabb Robinson". William Blake. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. pp. 331–335.
Attribution:
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). "Robinson, Henry Crabb". A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Robinson, Henry Crabb". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Further reading
- Diana Behler: "Henry Crabb Robinson as a Mediator of Lessing and Herder to England". In: Lessing Yearbook 7 (1975), pp. 105–126
- Diana Behler: "Henry Crabb Robinson: A British Acquaintance of Wieland and his Advocate in England". In: Christoph Martin Wieland. Nordamerikanische Forschungsbeitrage zur 250. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstages 1983. Ed. Hansjörg Schelle. Tübingen, 1984, pp. 539–571
- Diana Behler: "Henry Crabb Robinson and Weimar". In: A Reassessment of Weimar Classicism, ed. Gerhart Hoffmeister. Lewiston (NY), 1996, pp. 157–180
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 422.
- Lorna J. Clark, ed.: The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Athens, Georgia, and London: University of Georgia Press, pp. 125–130, 133–143 and passim
- Edith Morley. The Life and Times of Henry Crabb Robinson. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1935
External links
- Media related to Henry Crabb Robinson at Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Crabb Robinson Project, website of the Queen Mary University of London