John Beverley Robinson

This article is about the Canadian political figure. For the American anarchist, see John Beverley Robinson (anarchist).

The Hon. John Beverley Robinson
12th Mayor of Toronto
In office 1856–1856
Preceded by	George William Allan
Succeeded by	John Hutchison
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Algoma
In office 1872 – 1874
Preceded by	Frederick William Cumberland
Succeeded by	Edward Borron
Member of the Canadian Parliament for West Toronto
In office 1875 – 30 June 1880
Preceded by	Thomas Moss
Succeeded by	James Beaty, Jr.
5th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
In office 1880–1887
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Donald Alexander Macdonald
Succeeded by	Alexander Campbell
Personal details
Born	21 February 1821(1821-02-21) York (Toronto), Upper Canada
Died	19 June 1896(1896-06-19) (aged 75) Toronto, Ontario
Nationality	Canadian
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Mary Jane Hagerman (m. 1847)

John Beverley Robinson (21 February 1821 – 19 June 1896) was elected mayor of Toronto in 1856. He was the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario between the years 1880–1887.

He was born in York (Toronto) in 1821, the son of Sir John Robinson, an important political figure in Upper Canada. He attended Upper Canada College. During the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, Robinson served as aide-de-camp to Sir Francis Bond Head. He later studied law and was called to the bar in 1844. He became an alderman in Toronto at St. Patrick's Ward during the 1850s, including a term as mayor in 1856. He was also involved in the incorporation of a number of companies in the Toronto area including the Toronto and Georgian Bay Canal Company in 1856. He was elected to the 6th Parliament of the Province of Canada representing Toronto in 1858. He helped promote the Northern Railway and served as president from 1862 to 1875. He represented Algoma in the Canadian House of Commons in 1872 and represented West Toronto in 1878.

He suffered a stroke while preparing to give a speech at Massey Hall in Toronto and died in 1896.

Family

Mrs Augusta Louise Houston

Hon. John Beverley Robinson married Mary Jane Hagerman, daughter of Judge Christopher Alexander Hagerman and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of James Macaulay. Their daughter Minnie Caroline Robinson was born and educated in Toronto. She married, 1881, William Forsyth-Grant, Esquire, formerly Captain of H.M.'s 82nd Regiment, son of William Forsyth, Esquire, of Ecclesgreig, County Kincardine, Scotland, J. P. and D.L., who, in 1842, assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Grant (Chad-wick). She contributed to periodicals and newspapers and authored a travel book "Scenes in Hawaii, or Life in the Sandwich Islands." She served as President of the Woman's Historical Society of Toronto, and was elected President of the Ladies' Relief Society of Toronto, Ontario.

The couple`s youngest daughter Augusta Louisa, sang in London at public concerts, in company with other artists, and was also on tour in the Provinces. During John Beverley Robinson's term as Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, 1880–87, his wife Mary Jane Robinson and daughter Augusta Louise dispensed the hospitalities of Government House. She frequently sang at Government House and subsequently took vocal instruction in London, from Randegger, and in Paris, from Laborde. In London she lived with the song composer, Maude Valerie White. Augusta Louisa returned to Canada in 1895, and sang on tour with Emma Albani, Pol Plançon, Harry Plunket Greene, and Allan James Foley. She married, October 8, 1898, Stewart Fielde Houston, Barrister.

References

George Theodore Berthon's Sir John Beverley Robinson.

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External links

• John Beverley Robinson - Parliament of Canada biography
• Robinson, C. W. (Charles Walker), 1836-1924. Life of Sir John Beverley Robinson, Bart., Chief-Justice of Upper Canada. With a pref. by George R. Parkin. 1904, from Internet Archive.
• The Honourable John Beverley Robinson (1821–1896) at The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

Professional and academic associations
Preceded by Sir John Henry Lefroy	President of the Royal Canadian Institute	Succeeded by George William Allan