Charles Robinson (priest)

Charles Kirkby Robinson (1826 – 1909) was a British clergyman and academic, whose election to the Mastership of St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1861 caused great controversy.Charles Robinson was born in 1826 in Acomb, West Riding of Yorkshire,[1] and educated at St Peter's School, York[2] and matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1845.He was appointed Fellow and Tutor in 1850, and was Junior Proctor in the University of Cambridge from 1858 to 1859.Jameson left the Fellowship of St Catharine's shortly after, in 1862.[4] W. H. S. Jones records that 'this was probably the greatest disaster that ever happened to any college'; whether this was the case or not, the circumstances of the election were not forgotten during Robinson's long tenure as Master, from 1861 to 1909.
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