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 ROBINSON

ROBINSON

Sahlxtth Eveiiiug Serviotts (1S87); The Pharaohs of the liomiage and the Exodus (1887); and Simon Peter, His Life and Times (2 vols., 1888). He died in New York city, Feb. 1, 1899.

ROBINSON, Conway, jurist, was born in Rich-__ mond. Va.. Sept. 13, KSO.I; sou of Jolin Robinson, clerk of tlio superior court of Ricimiond, and author of ** Forms in the Courts of Law in Vir- ginia; " and a descendant of John Robinson who immigrated to Virj^inia, where his .son Anthony was a landed proprietor. He attended the schools of Richmond, and was appointed deputy clerk of the supt-rior court, under his father. He attained prominence as a lawyer; was reporter of the Vir;;inia court of appeals, 184'2-44; revised the civil and crimiual code of Virginia, 1846-49; was a representative in the house of delegates in 1852, and in 1800 removed to Washington, D.C., where he engaged in practice. He was chairman of the executive committee of the Virginia Historical society, and made several important historical discoveries, finding in 1853 inthe British Museum a MS. journal of the first legislative assembly in Virginia which met in 1619. He published a new edition of his father's " Forms in the Courts of Law in Virginia" (1826), and is the author of: Late and Equity Practice in Virginia (3 vols., (1832-39); Reports of the Virginia Court of Ap- peals (2 vols.. 1842-44); The Principles and Prac- tice of Courts of Justice in England and the United States (2 vols., 1855); Accou7it of the Discoveries of the West until 1510; and of Voy- ages to and along the Atlantic Coast of North America from 1520 to 1573 (1848); History of the High Court of Chancery, and Other Institutions of England from the time of Caius Julius Ccesar until the Accession of William and Mary in 16SS- 89 (2 vols.; Vol. I., 1882). He died in Philadelphia, Pa.. Jan. 30, 18S4.

ROBINSON, Edward, educator and author, was burn in .Suutliington, Conn., April 10, 1794. He wa.s brought up on his father's farm; taught school and wan graduated with high honors from Hamilton college in 1816, remaining as tutor there 1817. He studied law at Hudson, N.Y., during the next year, but deciding to study for the ministry he went home, and while 'assisting liis father on the farm pursued his studies. He was assistant instructor in .sacred literature at Andovt-r Theological seminary, 1823-26, while pursuing a course in Hebrew; studied in Halle and Berlin. 1826-30; was professor extraordinary of 8acred literature at Andover, 1830-.33; professor of Greek and Oriental languages and literature. University of the City of New York. 1832-33, and professor of Biblical literature. Union Theo- logical seminary, 1 837-63. He was twice married: first. Sept. 3. 1818, to Eliza, daughter of Samuel Kirlland. She died in 1819, and he married second-

ly, Aug. 7, 1828, Theresa Albertine Luise, daughter of Prof. Ludwig Heinrich von Jakob of Halle. In 1831 he established the Biblical Repository at Andover, and conducted it, 1831-35. The hon- orarj' degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Dartmouth college in 1831, by Ilalle in 1842, and that of LL.D. by Yale in 1844. lie is the author of a translation of: Winer's " Greek Gram- mar of the New Testament" (1825); a revision of Calmet's " Dictionary of the Holy Bible" (1832); A Greek Grammar (1833); Dictionary of the Holy Bible (compiled, 1833); A Greek and Eng- lish Lexicon of the Xctv Testament, (1836); a translation from the Latin of Gesenius's " Hebrew and English lexicon of the Old Testament" (1836): Biblical Researches in Palestine (3 vols., 1838); A Harmony of the Four Gospels in English (1846); A Harmony of the Four Gospels in Greek (1851); Later Biblical Researches in Palestine (1856); Physical Geography of the Holy Land (1865). His name was in Class G, Preachers and Theologians, for a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, but in the election of October, 1900, received no votes. He died in New York city, Jan. 27, 1863.

ROBINSON, Edward, archfeologist, was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1858; son of Edwin Augustus and Allen (Coburn) Robinson; grand- son of Shadrach and Mary (Stavers) Robinson and of Daniel Jennings and Eliza (Kiiowlton) Coburn. He was graduated from Harvard in 1879, and spent the subsequent five years abroad, remaining fifteen months in Greece and continu- ing his studies at the University of Berlin. He was married, Feb. 21, 1881, to Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Louise Mathilde (Patch) Gould of Boston, Mass. He was curator of classical anti- quities, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1885-1902; lecturer on classical archaeology. Harvard, 1893- 94 and 1898-1902, and in 1902 succeeded Gen. C. G. Loring as director of the Museum. He was engaged in the selection and arrangement of collections in the Slater Memorial museum, Nor- wich, Conn., 1887-88; the selection and purchase of casts for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1891-95, and with H. W. Kent selected and arranged the collection of casts in the Springfield (Mass.) Art museum, 1898-99. He was secretary of the Art Commission of the City of Boston, 1890-98; was made a member of the council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the council of the Archaeological Institute of America; a cor- porate member of the American Oriental society; corresponding member of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the American Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund of London. He jireparod the catalogues of Greek and Roman casts and of Greek, Etruscan and Roman