Charles Newton Robinson

Charles Edmund Newton-Robinson (14 October 1853 – 21 April 1913) was a British barrister, author, gemologist, fencer, and yachtsman.

Early life and family Charles Newton-Robinson was born in London on 14 October 1853, the eldest son of Sir John Charles Robinson. He was educated at Westminster School and then Trinity College, Cambridge.

He married Janetta Anna Stirke.

In 1900 he was living at 11 Chesterfield Hill.

Hobbies Newton-Robinson founded

He was a yachtsman and a member of the council of the Yacht-Racing Association.

He was a member of the Burlington Fine Arts Club and the Savile Club.

Selected publications Poetry The Golden Hind: A Story of the Invincible Armada; Thessalé, and Other Poems. George Bell & Sons, London, 1880. Tintinnabula, New Poems. Kegan Paul & Co., London, 1890. The Viol of Love. Poems. John Lane, London, 1895. Ver Lyræ. Selected poems ... With seven new lyrics. Lawrence & Bullen, London, 1896.

Other The Cruise of the Widgeon. 700 Miles in a Ten-Ton Yawl, from Swanage to Hamburg &c. Chapman & Hall, London, 1876. A Royal Warren or Picturesque Rambles in the Isle of Purbeck. Typographic Etching Company, London, 1882. (Illustrated by Alfred Dawson) Alice in Plunderland. Eveleigh Nash, London, 1910. (As Loris Carllew) (Illustrated by Linton Jehne) "Épée-de-Combat", The Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, 1911.