Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson | |
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 Portrait by George Theodore Berthon | |
| Born | September 1763 Highlands, New York |
| Died | 1 January 1852 (aged 88) Brighton, England |
| Buried | Parish Church, Hove, England |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service | British Army |
| Years of service | 1777–1852 |
| Rank | General |
| Unit | Various regiments |
| Commands | Inspecting Field Officer, Bedford Inspecting Field Officer, London Brigade, 5th Division 5th Division 4th Brigade, America Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada Governor of Tobago |
| Battles / wars | |
| Awards | Army Gold Medal |
| Children | 4 |
| Relations | Beverley Robinson (father) Susannah Philipse (mother) |
Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, GCB (September 1763 – 1 January 1852) was a soldier who fought for Britain during the American War of Independence. His father, Colonel Beverley Robinson, was a Virginian who moved to New York, marrying a wealthy heiress of the Philipse family with Dutch and Bohemian[1] ancestry, Susanna Philipse. Frederick was born in the Hudson Highlands on the family estate in the Philipse Patent, today's Putnam County, New York, in September 1763.
On the conclusion of peace he went to England. He subsequently took part in the War of 1812 with the United States and commanded a brigade at the unsuccessful Battle of Plattsburgh. In 1813 and 1814 he commanded a brigade under the Duke of Wellington in Spain. He was a provisional Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada in 1815. Afterwards he was governor of Tobago, and he became a general in 1841. In time he became the oldest soldier in the British service, and died at Brighton, England, at the age of 88.
- ^ (William Jay, The Life of John Jay: with selection of his correspondence and miscellaneous papers. New York: J. & J Harper, 1833, p. 10). On his Bohemian aristocratic ancestry, see also: Thomas Capek, Ancestry of Frederick Philipse: First Lord and Founder of Philipse Manor at Yonkers, N. Y. New York: The Paebar Co., 1939.