Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, GCB

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Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, GCB (September 1763 – 1 January 1852) was a soldier, born in the Highlands, near New York, in September 1763, who fought for Britain during the American War of Independence. His father was a Virginian who moved to New York, marrying a wealthy heiress of the Philipse family with Dutch and Bavarian ancestry. On the conclusion of peace he went to England. He subsequently took part in the War of 1812 and commanded a brigade at the unsuccessful Battle of Plattsburgh. In 1813 and 1814 he commanded a brigade under Wellington in Spain. He was a provisional Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada in 1815. Afterwards he was governor of Tobago, and he became a general in 1841. He died at Brighton, England.