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Walter Allen Robinson

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Walter Allen Robinson (7 December 1839 – 11 June 1895) was a British administrator who was appointed the first Principal of Aitchison College, Lahore, then in British India, on 20 November 1886.

Robinson was born in Hoton, Leicestershire, to Rev. Charles Walter Robinson and his wife, Martha Maddock. He was survived by his son, Sir Sydney Maddock Robinson, the Chief Justice of Burma and a daughter who was married in late April 1895, two months before her father died at 3 p.m. on 11 June 1895 of a sun stroke. He is buried in the Taxalie Gate cemetery in Lahore, Pakistan.

References

  1. ^ "Births". Leicestershire Mercury. 14 December 1839. p. 3. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  2. India, Select Deaths and Burials, 1719-1948
  3. 1841 England Census
  4. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Robinson, Sydney Maddock" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  5. Aitchison College History, Aitchison College, Pakistan.


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