A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Robinson, Richard
ROBINSON. (Commander, 1838. f-p., 22; h-p., 8.)
Richard Robinson was born in June, 1804, and died 11 Jan. 1848, in Dublin.
This officer entered the Navy, 23 Nov. 1817, as Midshipman, on. board the Favorite 26, Capt. Hercules Robinson, employed at St. Helena and in the Rio de la Plata. In Jan. 1820 he joined the Leander 50, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood in the East Indies, whence, after serving in the Satellite 18, Capt. Mark John Currie, he returned to England in 1823 in the Asia 84, also commanded by Capt. Currie. On 30 April, 1827, at which period he had been for about two years and 10 months employed in the Mediterranean on board the Cambrian 48, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His succeeding appointments were – in the course of the same year, to the Ariadne 26, Capts. Adolphus FitzClarence, Hon. Chas. Leonard Irby, and Lewis Davies, also in the Mediterranean, whence he came home and was paid off in May, 1828 – in 1830, to the Pylades 18, Capts. Patrick Duff Henry Hay, and Edw. Blanckley, employed at first on the coast of Ireland and afterwards in South America, whence he returned to England as Senior Lieutenant in June, 1834 – and 9 Feb. 1835, in the capacity last mentioned, to the Action 26, Capt. Lord Edw. Russell, with whom he again served in South America for three years. He attained the rank of Commander 28 June, 1838; and from 17 Feb. 1840 until the spring of 1845 filled an appointment in the Coast Guard. Agents Goode and Lawrence.