On the conclusion of peace he went to England, and in 1813 and 1814 he commanded a brigade under Wellington in Spain. Afterwards he was governor of Tobago, and he became a general in 1841. He died at Brighton on the 1st of January 1852.
During the absence of the minister, Philip Warwick, Robinson acted as resident and as envoy extraordinary, and he was thus in Sweden during a very interesting and important period, and was performing diplomatic duties at a time when the affairs of northern Europe were attracting an unusual amount of attention.
In 1709 Robinson returned to England, and was appointed dean of Windsor and of Wolverhampton; in 1710 he was elected bishop of Bristol, and among other ecclesiastical positions he held that of dean of the Chapel Royal.
A member of the same family was Sir FrederickPhilipseRobinson (1763-1852), a Virginian soldier, who fought for England during the American War of Independence.
In 1748 Beverly Robinson, a gentleman from a politically and historically prominent family in Virginia was attracted to a fine match with a niece of Adolph Philipse and married Susannah Philipse.
Robinson’s entire estates were confiscated in 1779 on the establishment of the State government in New York.
Robinson was part of the plot, conceived by Benedict Arnold and the British spy, Major John Andre, to deliver the fortifications at West Point to the British.
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