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	HART, SIR ROBERT - LoveToKnow Article on HART, SIR ROBERT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sir T. Wade was appointed to the post of collector in the first instance, and afterashort tenure of office was succeeded by Mr H. Lay, who held the post until 1863, when he resigned owing to a disagreement with the Chinese government in connection with the Lay-Osborn fleet.
		Sir Robert Hart, however-who was made a K.C.M.G. in 188 2recognized the anomalous position in which he would have been placed had he accepted the proposal, and declined the proffered honor.
		Sir Robert Hart married in 1886 Hester, the daughter of Alexander Bredon, Esq., M.D., of Portadown.
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	magdalen > history > nobel laureates > sir robert robinson
		Robert Robinson was born in September 1886 and was educated at Manchester University, coming to Magdalen College as Waynflete Professor of Chemistry in 1930; he remained in post until his retirement in 1955, when he became an Honorary Fellow.
		Robinson's first Chair was awarded him at the University of Sydney, New South Wales at the age of 26 and before arriving at Magdalen (where he was to remain for a quarter of a century) he had occupied four other chairs, in addition to a post in industry.
		Robinson made important contributions in three distinct and diverse areas of organic chemistry; in chemical theory, in the way that chemical processes occur in plants which are not reproducible in the laboratory and in the structure of natural products.
	www.magd.ox.ac.uk /history/nobel_robinson.shtml (196 words)

	Robinson, Sir Robert
		After obtaining his doctorate from Victoria University of Manchester in 1910, Robinson taught at various British universities before being appointed to the Waynflete chair of chemistry at the University of Oxford in 1930, from which he retired in 1955.
		Robinson conducted research on the structure and synthesis of many different organic compounds.
		Robinson's efforts to determine the chemical reactions that form alkaloids in plants led him to discover the structures of morphine (1925) and strychnine (1946).
	www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/506_96.html (183 words)

	Sir Robert Robinson - Biography
		Sir Robert Robinson was born at Rufford, near Chesterfield, Derbyshire on September 13th, 1886, the son of William Bradbury Robinson, a surgical dressing manufacturer who invented his own machines for the production of lint, bandages, etc., and the cardboard boxes for packaging them.
		Sir Robert, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and of the Royal Society was President of The Chemical Society, 1939-1941; of the Royal Society, 1945-1950; of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1955; and of the Society for the Chemical Industry, 1958.
		In his younger days, Sir Robert was a keen mountaineer, having climbed in the Alps, Pyrenees, Norway and New Zealand, and he is an ardent chess player being President of the British Chess Federation, 1950-1953.
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	PEEL, SIR ROBERT, BART - Online Information article about PEEL, SIR ROBERT, BART (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The writers who have most severely censured Sir Robert Peel as a public man have dwelt on the virtues and happiness of his private and domestic life.
		The result was a majority of ninety-one against them on a motion of want of confidence in the autumn of 1841, upon which they resigned, and Sir Robert Peel became first lord of the treasury, with a commanding majority in both Houses of Parliament.
		alienation of any part of the revenues of the Established Church Sir Robert Peel never would consent; but he had issued the ecclesiastical commission, and he now made better provision for a number of populous parishes by a redistribution of part of the revenues of the Church.
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		Gene Robinson, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire (born 1947)
		Robinson Crusoe is a name of fictitious character and title of the novel by Daniel Defoe, published in 1719
		Robinson is a song by Simon and Garfunkel from 1968.
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	Sir Robert Gordon Menzies -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Menzies, Robert G. The Australian lawyer and statesman Robert G. Menzies served two terms as prime minister—1930 to 1941 and 1949 to 1966.
		The fictional character Sir Geraint is a knight of Arthurian legend.
		Sir Isaac Newton law of gravity helped prove that the sun was the center of the universe.
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	AIM25: Royal Society: Robinson, Sir Robert (1886-1975)
		In 1912 Robinson was appointed to his first chair at the University of Sydney and subsequently occupied chairs of organic chemistry at Liverpool (1915), St Andrews (1920), Manchester (1922), University College London (1928), and the Waynflete Chair of Chemistry, Oxford (1930-1955): the university extended his tenure for four years after the normal retirement age.
		In all these posts, Robinson developed productive research schools working in a wide range of chemical problems, and in retirement his activity continued in a small laboratory made available by the Shell Chemical Company, where he was consultant.
		Scope and content/abstract: Robinson's volatile temperament and his impatience with administration and routine have seriously affected the survival of material.
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	Robert Robinson ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Sadie Adriani, Portrait of Robinson Jeffers, circa 1950
		Robinson is well known for his photographs of people, landscapes, and animal life.
		In Boston, Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, Robert Reid and Frederick Carl Frieseke developed a genteel version of Impressionism related to the culture of that city.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Nolan Sir Sidney Robert
		Nolan, Sir Sidney Robert (1917-1992), Australian painter of great versatility whose imagery is often inspired by the folk history of his native...
		Peel, Sir Robert (1788-1850), British prime minister and founder of the modern Conservative party.
		Borden, Sir Robert Laird (1854-1937), eighth prime minister of Canada (1911-1920).
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		Wednesday, September 19, Sir Robert Robinson will speak on "Syntheses in the Steroid Group," and Friday, Sep- telrmber 21, Dr. Alexander Todd will talk on "Some Recent Progress in Nucleotide Research." Both lec- tures will be given at 4:30 in the afternoon in Room 10-250.
		Sir Robert Robinson, who since 1930 has been Professor of Chem- istry at Oxfocrd University, was knighted in 1939 in recognition of his substantial contributions to chemistry.
		The week-end was inaugurated by a luncheon Thursday at which the freshmen were greeted by the new Dean of Students, E. Francis Bowditch, and,by Robert M. Briber, '52, president of the senior class and Institute Committee.
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	Robinson, Robert
		Robinson was educated in chemistry at the University of Manchester and under W.H.Perkin Jr.
		After a professorship at the University of Sydney (Australia), he returned to England in 1915 and taught at a number of universities.
		Robinson served as president of the Royal Society from 1945-1950
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	Sir Robert Stout -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The English antiquarian Robert Cotton was the founder of the Cottonian Library and a prominent member of Parliament during the reign of Charles I. The collection of historical documents amassed by Cotton in his library eventually formed the basis of the manuscript collection of the British Museum.
		England's greatest admiral in the Commonwealth period was Robert Blake.
		The great writer Robert Louis Stevenson, famous for Treasure Island, was born in Edinburgh,Scotland on November 13, 1850.
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	Robert Burns Woodward, April 10, 1917 — July 8, 1979 \| By Elkan Blout \| Biographical Memoirs
		During World War II he started with a reasoned argument (1944) for the beta-lactam formula for penicillin, in contrast to the incorrect oxazoline formula advocated by Sir Robert Robinson and others.
		Robinson had worked hard and well on this subject for many years, and immediately after the war he made it his major project.
		There was an enormous body of fact that, with the aid of a minimum of concise experimentation, led him to deduce the correct formula (1954).
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		All three of them would probably have been Nobel laureates had not Robinson's influence in Sweden discouraged an award to Ingold, his chemical foe and fellow countryman.
		Robinson and Woodward after a 1951 MIT seminar by Robinson on the
		Woodward and Sir Robert Robinson held each other in high esteem, but they did not always get along well.
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	Chemistry and Industry: Sir Robert Robinson: Chemist Extraordinary. (book reviews)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chemistry and Industry: Sir Robert Robinson: Chemist Extraordinary.
		Sir Robert Robinson, OM, FRS (1886- 1975) was described in The Times' obituary notice as one of the greatest scientists Britain has ever produced'.
		His close friend and eminent science audior, Trevor Williams, has written a biography which provides a sensitive and wideranging appreciation of Robinson as a scientist and as a man. Future generations of chemists are given the opportunity to understand the breadth and the magnitude of Robinson's influence on die development of modem organic chemistry.
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	ROBINSON Meaning and Definition - Dictionary - eLook.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Synonyms: Robinson, Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Walker Smith
		Synonyms: Robinson, Lennox Robinson, Esme Stuart Lennox Robinson
		Synonyms: Robinson, Edward G. Robinson, Edward Goldenberg Robinson
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	University of Sydney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Governors-General of Australia - Sir Zelman Cowen, Sir John Kerr, Sir William Deane
		Governors of New South Wales - Sir Roden Cutler
		Nobel Laureates - Sir Robert Robinson (Sydney's first Professor of Pure and Applied Organic Chemistry 1912 - Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1947), Sir John Cornforth (graduated with BSc 1938 and University Medal and MSc 1939 - Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1975), John Harsanyi (graduated with Masters in Economics 1966 - Nobel Prize in Economics 1994)
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	1947
		April 9 - The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
		April 15 - Jackie Robinson, an African-American, takes the field at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers major-league baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.
		April 16 - The Texas City Disaster occurs when a French ship loaded with ammonium nitrate blows up in the harbor of Texas City, Texas.
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	Robinson, Robert - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
		(Sir) Robert Robinson was Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University from 1930-55.
		He spent 3 years at the University of Sydney (1913-15) as Professor of Organic Chemistry (Pure and Applied).
		'Sir Robert Robinson - Biography', in Nobel e-Museum, 1996,
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/biogs/P002654b.htm (203 words)

	Synonyms of robinson
		Robinson, Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Walker Smith, prizefighter, gladiator
		Robinson, Lennox Robinson, Esme Stuart Lennox Robinson, dramatist, playwright
		Robinson, Edward G. Robinson, Edward Goldenberg Robinson, actor, histrion, player, thespian, role player
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	Find in a Library: Robert Robinson, chemist extraordinary
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	Robert Robinson Lectureship
		Founded in 1962 as a result of an endowment received from the Sir Robert Robinson Foundation Inc., which was created to receive the royalties donated by the authors of "Perspectives in Organic Chemistry", published in commemoration of Sir Robert Robinson's 70th birthday, and supplemented by contributions from other sources.
		The lecture, which should review progress in any branch of organic chemistry, is given biennially on the occasion of the RSC's Annual Congress.
		Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BA
	www.rsc.org /ScienceAndTechnology/AwardsAndFunding/RobertRobinson (90 words)

	Prettyman.OurFamily.Com > Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670
		Now know yee that Wee being desirous to promote all Endeavours tending to the publique good of our people and to encourage the said undertaking have of our especiall grace certaine knowledge and meere mocion Given granted ratifyed and confirmed And by these Presentes for us our heires and Successors
		Doe give grant ratifie and confirme unto our said Cousin Prince Rupert Christopher Duke of Albemarle William Earle of Craven Henry Lord Arlington Anthony Lord Ashley Sir John Robinson Sir Robert Vyner Sir Peter Colleton Sir Edward Hungerford Sir Paul Neile Sir John Griffith and Sir Phillipp Carterett James Hayes John Kirke Francis Millington
		And further Wee will And by these presentes for us our Heires and successors
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	King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath October 30 in History
		King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath October 30 in History
		King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath
		Business is a combination of war and sport.
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