Aylmer Francis Robinson

Aylmer Francis Robinson (May 6, 1888 – April 3, 1967) was an owner of the Hawaiian island of Nihau and a rancher.

Life Aylmer Francis Robinson was born on May 6, 1888, at the Robinson family estate in Makaweli on the island of Kauai during the Kingdom of Hawaii. His father was Aubrey Robinson (1853–1936) and his mother was Alice Gay Robinson who was his father's cousin. This made him the double great-grandson of family matriarch Elizabeth McHutchison Sinclair (1800–1892). Besides various properties on Kauai, the family owned the entire island of Niihau since 1864.

He was sent to St. Mathew's Military School in Burlingame, California, and then graduated from Harvard University in 1910. He returned and worked at a sugarcane plantation in Waipahu, Hawaii, in 1911.

A species of palm tree, Pritchardia aylmer-robinsonii was named for him by botanist Harold St. John in 1947. Although never active himself in politics, he identified himself with the Hawaii Republican Party, and residents of the family island voted solidly Republican even after the rest of the territory and later the state of Hawaii, turned Democratic. He never married, so when he died on April 3, 1967, the family estates went to his youngest brother Lester.

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