Percy James Robinson

Percy James Robinson (October 18, 1873 – June 19, 1953) was a Canadian professor of classical literature. He was also an historian, a translator of French literature and an amateur painter of some repute.

Biography Robinson was born in Whitby, Ontario but spent most of his life in Toronto. He attended the University of Toronto where he obtained his BA in 1897 and MA in 1902. In 1899 he joined the staff of St. Andrew's College, Aurora as a professor teaching Latin and Greek. He stayed at the college until his retirement in 1946.

In 1905 he married Esther de Beauregard. They had one son, Gilbert. Robinson died in Toronto in 1953. He is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Works The Group of Seven, 1923 Toronto During the French Régime - 1615-1793, 1934 and 1965 (University of Toronto Press) The history of Canada or New France, 1951-1952 [translation of François Du Creux's Historiae Canadensis, 1664] The Georgian Bay, 1966

Source: Internet Archive, University of Toronto Libraries