Sir George Robinson, 1st Baronet
Sir George Abercrombie Robinson, 1st Baronet (29March 175813February 1832) was a British politician and Chairman of the East India Company.

Life
He was the son of John Robinson of Calcutta, who died at the Cape of Good Hope in 1779, and Margaret, daughter of George Leslie of Kimrawgie, North Britain. He joined the East India Company in 1779 as a cadet and was successively promoted to ensign, Commissary-General (1786), Aide-de-Camp to Lord Cornwallis (Governor-General of Bengal) (1788), Head Assistant in the Military Auditor-General's office (1788–92), Garrison Storekeeper at Fort William and Secretary to the Military Board, captain (1798) and Military Auditor-General (1798). He retired in 1802 and served as Private Secretary to Cornwallis from July to October, 1805.

Robinson became a director of the East India Company from 1808 to 1829, acting as chairman in 1820 and 1826. He was also a director of the Globe Insurance Company. He was elected as the MP for Honiton in 1812 (until 1818).

On 11 November 1823, Robinson was created the first Baronet of Batts House, Somerset . The title became extinct in 1944 on the death of Sir Douglas Robinson, 6th Baronet. He died on 13February 1832 at his son William Scott Robinson's house in Dyrham, after a long illness. His wife Margaret predeceased him on 21May 1824.

Family
On 27March 1794 Robinson married, in Calcutta, Margaret Southwell, the illegitimate daughter of Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Suffolk, with whom he had seven sons and a daughter: 

George Best – died young
Francis Matilda – died young
Sir George Best Robinson, 2nd Baronet – became the second chief superintendent of British trade in China in 1835.
Francis-Horsley
The Rev. William Scott Robinson, Rector of Dyrham, Gloucestershire
Charles Cornwallis – died young
Henry Sterling
Edward Innes

References

1758 births
1832 deaths
British East India Company
Directors of the British East India Company
British East India Company people
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Honiton
UK MPs 1812–1818
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom