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	Geoffrey Robinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Geoffrey Robinson (born May 25, 1938) has been a British Member of Parliament for Coventry North West, a safe Labour seat, since a by-election in 1976 caused by the death of former MP Maurice Edelman.
		Robinson has had a long association with Coventry City F.C., being a member of the board of directors from the late 1980s.
		In 1997, when Robinson was made Paymaster General, he was forced to stand down from the board, members of the government are not allowed to hold directorships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geoffrey_Robinson (294 words)

	The Further Adventures of Geoffrey Robinson
		Robinson has been an MP since 1976 but his attendance at the Commons is irregular to say the least, as he prefers to concentrate on his business dealings.
		Robinson is also in trouble for failing to declare his links to Maxwell’s empire whilst sitting as an MP.
		Robinson may, however, been responsible for leaking the loan story in the first place, as it was alleged that he was annoyed that Peter Mandelson didn't invite him to his house-warming party...
	www.geocities.com /britishpoliticsonline/mandelson/robinson.htm (572 words)

	Geoffrey Robinson Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Geoffrey Robinson is an inventive image maker who, using still life as the main vehicle of expression, introduces imagination and a colourful verve into a well-trodden area of modern painting.
		From Robinson's brittle planes of pure colour, synthetic spaces and inscribed intricacies of surface detail there emerges the same love of everyday domestic objects and a similar contemplation of the play of natural light that held the attention of Grant, Bell and Fry two generations before.
		A Robinson is quite clearly and recognisably a Robinson and for those still not familiar with his work, his uncanny and almost idiosyncratic mix of styles – and within it of multifarious still life objects – will assuredly make its mark.
	members.madasafish.com /~theboy (492 words)

	GEOFFREY ROBINSON FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Geoffrey Robinson (born May_25, 1938) has been a British Member_of_Parliament for Coventry North West, a safe Labour seat, since a by-election in 1976 caused by the death of former MP Maurice Edelman.
		Robinson has had a long association with Coventry_City_F.C., being a member of the board of directors from the late 1980s.
		On September_21 2005, Robinson was named as the acting-chairman of Coventry City after chairman Mike_McGinnity was asked to step down by his doctor for an indefinate period due to ongoing health problems.
	www.palfacts.com /Geoffrey_Robinson (270 words)

	William Heath Robinson Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		William Heath Robinson was the younger brother of Charles and Thomas Heath Robinson.
		Geoffrey Beare, in one of his many wonderful essays on the Robinsons, points out that the 1890's were an explosive period of growth for printed media.
		Robinson was capable of fancy, but fantasy itself seems to have been a stretch for him.
	www.bpib.com /illustrat/whrobin.htm (1639 words)

	Books \| The Paymaster by Tom Bower
		Simultaneously coveting affluence and influence were confusing ambitions for a traditional socialist in the Seventies, but for Geoffrey Robinson, the son of a furniture manufacturer, born in Sheffield on 25 May 1938, the journey from Labour's left wing was unusually comfortable.
		The second of four children of an unhappy marriage, Robinson had excelled at school as a superb sportsman, an excellent academic and a popular prefect; was a success as a student of economics and history at Clare College, Cambridge; and shone during a fellowship at Yale.
		Robinson was good-looking, energetic and articulate, and his background - a direct-grant public school, Cambridge, Yale, Transport House and the IRC - cast him as Stokes's chosen son.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4288818-101284,00.html (2152 words)

	Coventry North West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Part of the reason was the strong municipal Labour tradition, and also the personality of MP Geoffrey Robinson, who was unusual in the 1970s and 1980s in being a successful businessman turned Labour MP and therefore easy for voters believing in enterprise and ambition to support - New Labour before New Labour was invented.
		Geoffrey Robinson has run into trouble with the parliamentary regulators over his business affairs and had to resign as a minister in 1998.
		However, Robinson is a man of considerable charm and has dug himself in well, and with Labour doing well in the national polls I back Robinson to hold the seat - despite what might be a fairly large swing against him.
	www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /~m6chan/2001_uk/midlands/coventry-north-west.html (249 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Q&A: Geoffrey Robinson and TransTec
		Geoffrey Robinson, Former Paymaster General in Tony Blair's government, faces a welter of allegations which could embarrass the prime minister.
		The main questions are the extent to which Mr Robinson was aware of the Ford claims; the extent to which he was aware of improper accounts being filed; and whether TransTec improperly claimed and used regional grants from the Department of Trade and Industry.
		If the inquiry concludes that Mr Robinson has acted either illegally or improperly, or incompetently, and suggests either prosecution or that he be disqualified as a director, it would be enormously damaging.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_619000/619641.stm (472 words)

	Geoffrey Robinson - New Labour Scandals
		Robinson was one of the millionaire paymasters of the New Labour Soap Opera.
		Geoffrey Robinson, had been forced to resign from his ministerial post of 'Paymaster General' after the First Mandelson Scandal.
		Robinson still denies that he received the payment, which he says was made to his company, Transtec.
	www.newlabourscandals.co.uk /Geoffrey%20Robinson.htm (643 words)

	Coventry Labour Party
		Geoffrey Robinson MP said: “If there is one thing that new mums and dads in Coventry tell me it is that they wish they could spend more time with their new family.
		Geoffrey Robinson MP said: “This is definitely a step in the right direction as all workers should be entitled to a fair day's pay for a fair day's work.
		Geoffrey Robinson MP said: It really is remarkable that many student residences are not covered by the same regulations that other types of accommodation are.
	www.labourincoventry.org.uk (2498 words)

	Robinson, Geoffrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Geoffrey Robinson, the Paymaster General, was rebuked by the parliamentary standards watchdog over the way he had handled his links with an offshore trust.
		Mr Robinson told Sir Gordon that he had sought the "professional advice" of his accountants, who told him that no specific disclosure was required.
		Geoffrey Robinson has been rebuked by a Commons inquiry for two offences and MPs on the Commons standards and privileges committee said the investigation's findings reflected "poorly" on his business skill.
	www.wesleyar.freeserve.co.uk /Labour/People/Robinson.htm (518 words)

	The Scotsman - Top Stories - MP Robinson banned and fined (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		THE former Labour minister, Geoffrey Robinson, was banned from driving for 12 months and fined £1,000 yesterday after being found "technically" guilty of failing to provide the police with a breath test.
		Mr Robinson said he would be complaining to the Police Complaints Authority after he was wrongfully accused of possessing the class-A drug cocaine at the time of his arrest.
		Mr Wilkins said Robinson had been asked to blow into a breathalyser at Walsall police station, but had appeared, in the opinion of the officer in charge of the test, to be pretending to blow into it.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=880782003 (615 words)

	Geoffrey on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Geoffrey died in Paris while forming an alliance with Philip II of France against Henry II.
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		GEOFFREY W. MARCY, director of the Center for Integrative Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, has fo.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Geoffrey.asp (677 words)

	Bali's other face (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		However, as Geoffrey Robinson in his stunning study of Bali shows in great detail, most academic scholarship on Bali has in fact been shallow and misleading.
		Robinson's study has gone well beyond Vickers' largely cultural analysis to examine the social and economic roots of the deep divisions that have, since colonial times, penetrated and defined Balinese society.
		Robinson shows how the Dutch, following their colonial conquests and fearful of emerging 'communism' and 'nationalism' in the 1920s, embarked on a policy of restoring - and in some cases creating - 'traditional' cultural, religious and legal practices.
	www.insideindonesia.org /edit50/bali.htm (476 words)

	[A-List] UK state: Geoffrey Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Robinson will not face drug charge Nick Hopkins, crime correspondent Wednesday March 26, 2003 The Guardian Tests have shown that a white powder found in a police van during the arrest of the MP Geoffrey Robinson was cocaine.
		Mr Robinson was arrested for failing to provide a breath test but discovery of the powder led police to search his home.
		This decision was made in conjunction with the crown prosecution service." Mr Robinson's lawyers issued a statement on behalf of the MP.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2003-March/024662.html (443 words)

	Geoffrey Robinson MP
		Receivers who have been called in to administer a firm formerly headed by Coventry MP Geoffrey Robinson have reassured staff that their jobs are safe.
		The "newly liberated" Geoffrey Robinson threw his considerable political weight behind the push for a city centre super hospital today.
		MP Geoffrey Robinson lost nearly £4million yesterday as his personal stake in the British car industry was hit by falling production.
	www.cwn.org.uk /politics/mps/geoffrey-robinson (278 words)

	Geoffrey Robinson - Paymaster General (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Geoffrey Robinson has been appointed as the new Paymaster General by Tony Blair.
		Robinson is a friend of the Blairs, and has previously also been the Chief Executive of Jaguar Car.
		Robinson then published a book about his period in Government, with media reports that Robinson told friends he could have made it a lot worse and a lot more revealing.
	ukpol.co.uk /robinson.shtml (190 words)

	MTCP 1999
		Geoffrey Robinson was Chief Executive of Triumph Motorcycles (Meriden) Ltd between 1979 and 1982.
		Geoffrey is also a big supporter of Coventry City Football Club and he recently gave them a 5 million pound unsecured loan.
		Geoffrey was unavailable to speak to Ivy on the phone when she rang to ask him a few questions...
	www.fnord.demon.co.uk /mt/third/third3.html (2896 words)

	Guardian \| Geoffrey Robinson on breath test charge
		The former Treasury minister, Geoffrey Robinson, has been charged with refusing to take a breath test and with driving a Jaguar without insurance, West Midlands police confirmed last night.
		Mr Robinson was also charged with driving not in accordance with his licence, though this may simply be procedural if he did not have his licence when stopped.
		Mr Robinson was punished for failing to give full and ac curate answers over the payment for his brief tenure as non-executive chairman of Hollis industries, a Maxwell firm.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4570366-103685,00.html (385 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Aristotle \| Geoffrey Robinson
		As if that snub was not enough, both Mr Mandelson and Mr Robinson - paymaster general from 1997 - had to resign in December 1998 when details of the loan became clear.
		For Geoffrey Robinson is a middle class idealist.
		But at 62, after an operation for colonic cancer, he must be wondering whether he took the right decision to continue as an MP or whether he should retire to enjoy the good things of life.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /profiles/story/0,9396,-4472,00.html (610 words)

	Geoffrey Robinson MP news - TransTec Calls In The Receivers - 5 January 2000
		Receivers who have been called in to administrate a firm formerly headed by Coventry MP Geoffrey Robinson have reassured staff that their jobs are safe – for the immediate future.
		Directors of Birmingham-based TransTec plc, of which Mr Robinson was once chairman, called in receivers Arthur Andersen after being hit hard by costs and losses in recent years.
		Robinson took charge of the company in 1991 before resigning in 1997 when he was appointed Paymaster General.
	www.cwn.org.uk /politics/mps/geoffrey-robinson/2000/01/000105-transtec.htm (388 words)

	RED STAR RESEARCH - Tony Blair and New Labour's links with Company Bosses and the Rich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Geoffrey Robinson, the millionaire businessman and former Government Paymaster General, paid the Labour Party more than £250,000 in sponsorship in 1997.
		Robinson owned another mansion, at Marsh Court in Stockbridge, Hampshire which he sold in 1999 for £6 million.
		His engineering company, Transtec, went bust in 1999, but Robinson has interests in several family property companies and the enormous fortune left to him in 1994 by a Belgian businesswoman, Joska Bourgeois, when she died.
	www.red-star-research.org.uk /geoffrobin.html (482 words)

	BBC News \| UK Politics \| Robinson: The ultimate champagne socialist
		Multi-millionaire Geoffrey Robinson bulging bank account always looked as if it could cause a few red faces within the Labour government, despite his political roots.
		Mr Robinson, who is married with two children, is one of the country's richest MPs, with a personal fortune estimated to be between £18m and £30m.
		In a statement, Mr Robinson also said he was a discretionary beneficiary under a Guernsey trust established for his family by a late Belgian friend.
	newsrss.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_216000/216965.stm (640 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| No drugs charge for Robinson
		Ex-minister Geoffrey Robinson will not face prosecution in relation to cocaine police discovered when they arrested him for alleged motoring offences, it emerged today.
		The 64-year-old MP and former paymaster general, who has always strenuously denied having any contact with the powder, is due to appear in court on April 10 to answer a charge of refusing to give a specimen of breath for analysis.
		A statement was issued on behalf of Mr Robinson to the Coventry Evening Telegraph, confirming that the drugs investigation had been dropped.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /labour/story/0,9061,921746,00.html (302 words)

	Robinson 'not linked to Maxwell scandal'
		ALLEGATIONS that Geoffrey Robinson, the Paymaster General, was involved in the Maxwell pension scandal were dismissed by the Treasury last night as "factually inaccurate".
		For two months Mr Robinson, Labour MP for Coventry North and a multi-millionaire, has been at the centre of controversy over his links to an offshore trust in the tax haven of Guernsey.
		In 1987 Mr Robinson became a director of Central and Sheerwood, a publicly quoted industrial and property conglomerate chaired by Maxwell, but in 1991 he helped to negotiate a reverse takeover, effectively merging TransTec with Central and Sheerwood, which had a turnover of £38 million.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/01/31/nrob31.html (656 words)

	Inquiry clears Robinson over Maxwell firm
		GEOFFREY ROBINSON was told yesterday that he does not face action as a result of a Department of Trade and Industry investigation of his business affairs.
		A central issue in the DTI investigation was that Mr Robinson had signed off accounts which showed him as having been paid £200,000, which he later said he was not paid.
		False accounting is a serious issue, but Mr Robinson said that he had approved the mistake unknowingly.
	www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/12/22/nrob22.html (423 words)

	Coventry City FC news - Robinson Back On Board - 22 January 2002
		Mr Robinson was a Sky Blues’ director when the Labour party returned to power in the 1997 General Election, but soon afterwards he was made Paymaster General and stood down from the City board.
		A high-profile investigation into Mr Robinson’s business affairs followed, but although the MP had to apologise to the Commons for withholding some information, no wrong-doing on his part has been proven and no action has been taken against him.
		Free from Government office, Mr Robinson was voted back on to the board of the football club at a board meeting held at Highfield Road at the end of last week.
	www.cwn.org.uk /skyblues/2002/01/020122-geoffrey-robinson.htm (273 words)

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