Robert Thomson Robinson
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The Honourable Robert Robinson KC |
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| Attorney-General of Western Australia | |
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In office 27 July 1916 – 17 May 1919 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas Walker |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Draper |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia |
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In office 21 October 1914 – 12 March 1921 |
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| Preceded by | Charles Lewis |
| Succeeded by | Alec Clydesdale |
| Constituency | Canning |
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| Born |
18 January 1867 Ballybay, County Monaghan, Ireland |
| Died | 19 September 1926 (aged 59) Mount Lawley, Western Australia, Australia |
| Political party |
Liberal (to 1917) Nationalist (from 1917) |
Robert Thomson Robinson (18 January 1867 – 19 September 1926) was an Australian lawyer and politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1914 to 1921, representing the seat of Canning. He served as a minister in the governments of Frank Wilson, Henry Lefroy, Hal Colebatch, and James Mitchell.
Robinson was born in Ballybay, County Monaghan, Ireland, to Margaret (née Thomson) and John Robinson. His family moved to Victoria in 1873, where his younger brother, Herbert Robinson, was born, and then to Albany, Western Australia, in June 1878. Robinson and his brother were both sent to Adelaide to be educated, attending Prince Alfred College. Entering the legal profession, he was articled to Edward Hare of Albany and Septimus Burt of Perth, eventually becoming an associate to Sir Alexander Onslow, the Chief Justice of Western Australia. Called to the bar in 1889, Robinson returned to Albany in 1897 to go into partnership with Samuel Johnson Haynes, with their firm eventually becoming known as Hayes, Robinson, and Cox. He was made King's Counsel in 1914.
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