A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Robinson, Alfred Samuel
ROBINSON. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 19; h-p., 27.)
Alfred Samuel Robinson entered the Navy, in 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Standard 64, Capt. Chas. Stewart, attached to the force in the North Sea. From May, 1802, until Feb. 1805, he was employed, the chief part of the time as Midshipman, in the Glatton 50, Capt. Jas. Colnett; in which ship he circumnavigated the globe and was for some time stationed at Leith under the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Vashon. After serving for three years and a half (during which period he commanded a boat at the capture and destruction of a convoy under the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, and assisted in cutting out three vessels from under a heavy fire at St. Martin’s) in the Channel, Downs, and North Sea, and also off Lisbon, in the Pomone frigate, Capts. Wm. Grenville Lobb, Rich. Budd Vincent, and Robt. Barrie, he was nominated, 5 Aug. 1808, Acting-Lieutenant of the Woolwich 44, Capt. Fras. Beaufort, on the Mediterranean station. He left that ship 6 June, 1809; was officially promoted 2 Jan. 1810; and was subsequently appointed – 8 Jan. 1810, to the Fly sloop, Capts. John Thompson, Manley Hall Dickson, John Skekel, and Henry Higman, in which vessel, employed in the Downs and Baltic, he came into contact with a Danish flotilla in the Little Belt – 17 Aug. 1812 (after four months of half-pay) to the Semiramis 36, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Chas. Tyler at the Cape of Good Hope, where he remained until Aug. 1814 – 23 June, 1823, for nearly four years, to the Cambridge 82, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling, on the South American station – and 16 Oct. 1843 and 11 July, 1844, as First, to the Tartarus and Porcupine steam surveying- vessels, Capts. Horatio Thos. Austin, Jas. Wolfe, and Fred. Bullock. He has been on half-pay since June, 1846.
He married, 4 Dec. 1827, Leonora Maria, only daughter of the late Thos. Rowcroft, first Consul-General for Peru. Agent – J. Hinxman.