The Digital Ark :: John Robinson

The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

John Robinson, Bishop of London (7 Nov 1650 - 11 Apr 1723)

Diplomat and clergyman, rising to Bishop of London. He was educated at Brasenose College and became a fellow of Oriel College. Around 1680 he became chaplain to the British embassy to Stockholm. He remained in Sweden for nearly thirty years, sending two rune-stones to the Ashmolean Museum in 1689 (MacGregor, 1). Relevant locations: Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford University
Lived at or near Stockholm, Sweden
Member of Oriel College, Oxford University
Title (royalty or holy order) London, England
Relationships: John Robinson was a donor to Ashmolean Museum (1683-)

Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Ashmolean Museum Oxford: Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683-1886 (Part I).
References in Documents:

MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)

The distinguished John Robinson MA, former Fellow of Oriel College and King James II's Envoy-Extraordinary to Sweden, concerned that inscriptions of any people or language should be lacking from Oxford, obtained, at great trouble and expense, two monumental runic stones, and generously sent them to England to be set up in the forecourt of the Museum (to grace their surroundings).