Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson (1763–1852)

British soldier, son of Beverly Robinson; born in the Highlands, NY, in September 1763. At the outbreak of the American Revolution he joined his father’s Loyal American Regiment, and was given the rank of ensign; was wounded and taken prisoner by the Colonial troops in the battle of Stony Point, exchanged, and thereafter left the country. He served in the West Indies under Sir Charles Gore as captain; in the Peninsula under Wellington as brigadier; was commander-in-chief of the troops of the Upper Province of Canada during the War of 1812; knighted in 1815; governor of Upper Canada (1815–16); commander of the British forces in the West Indies, and was raised to the rank of lieutenant-general (1825); promoted to full rank of general in 1841. He died in Brighton, England, on the 1st of January 1852.