Charles Walker Robinson Explained

Major-General Sir Charles Walker Robinson, (April 3, 1836 – May 20, 1924) was a British North America-born British Army officer and writer on military subjects.

Born in Toronto, Upper Canada, the son of John Beverley Robinson, he attended Trinity College, before joining the British Army as a second lieutenant in the Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade). He fought in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, then the Third Anglo-Ashanti War, then the Anglo-Zulu War.^[1] He became a Major-General in 1892. He was Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and a Lieutenant-Governor of Royal Hospital Chelsea.^[2] He died in London, England.

Robinson was designated a Person of National Historic Significance in 1938 by the Canadian government.^[3]

Works

• Life of Sir John Beverley Robinson (1904)
• Canada and Canadian defence: the defensive policy of the Dominion in relation to the character of her frontier, the events of the War of 1812–14, and her position to-day (1910)
• Wellington's campaigns, Peninsula—Waterloo, 1808-15; also Moore's campaign of Corunna (1914)

Notes and References

1. The Canadian magazine. 14(6), April 1900, p. 502.
2. "The Royal Hospital: Paymasters General and Officials", in Survey of London: Volume 11, Chelsea, Part IV: the Royal Hospital, ed. Walter H Godfrey (London, 1927), pp. 37-60. British History Online [accessed 20 January 2020].
3. Web site: Robinson, Charles Walker National Historic Person . www.pc.gc.ca . en . 2020-01-20.