Andrew Craig Robinson, second son of Richard Bell Robinson, of Cork, by his wife, Margaret Anne, daughter of Capt. James Montgomery Blair, 99th Regt., by his wife, Sarah, daughter of John Wynne, Lieut. 46th regt., of Kilmacowen, Co. Sligo, by his wife, Frances, daughter of Arthur Nicholson, of Castle Baldwin, Co. Sligo.
Lieut. Wynne, in 1765, was serving in the war against the French in America, but left the army when he married, and was appointed to the Collectorship of Customs in Sligo. He died in 1807. He was son of Lieut.-Col John Wynne, M.P., who, as a captain in the 5th Dragoons, served several campaigns in Flanders, under Marlborough. Colonel Wynne represented the Borough of Castlebar in Parliament from 1727 till his death in 1747, at which time he was lieut.col. of the Royal Irish Dragoons. Richard Bell Robinson, agent to the Bank of Ireland at Cork, was grandson of Patrick Robinson, of Dromore, Co. Down. His eldest son, Richard Samuel Owen Robertson, of Southsea, Hants, married the great-great-granddaughter of this John Knox, Henrietta, dau. of Alexander Knox, of Clontarf, and sister of Rev. Alex. Knox, R. of Doneraile.
Rev. A.C.Robinson grad. B.A., T.C.D., in 1860; M.A. 1865. Ordained for curacy of Kinsale, 18Dec.,1892, which he held till 1900.
He married, 20 July 1876, Emily Anna, dau.of Thomas Jones, barrister-at-law, of Donnybrook, Douglas, Cork, by his wife Deborah Amelia, dau. of Isaac Tyndall, of Dublin, and has issue surviving four sons – Montgomery Blair, Thomas Jones, Richard Arthur Wynne, Esmé Stuart Lennox, and a daughter, Eleanore Elizabeth.
Revd. A.C. Robinson is a contributor to literature as a writer in reviews, the ‘Church of Ireland Gazette,’ etc., chiefly on subjects connected with Biblical Archæology and Criticism; and is the author of an admirable ‘Handbook to St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Historical and Descriptive’ (Guy and Co., Cork 1997)
His daughter Eleanore Elizabeth married W.S. Dorman of Public Works Dept., Punjab, India.
His 4th son Esmé Stuart Lennox was a playwright and director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. He died in Dublin Oct 14 1958
A.C.R. died 30th Dec. 1922 aged 87.
See ‘Three Homes’ by Lennox, Tom and Nora Robinson, London; Michael Joseph 1938
Window designed at Tower of Glass, in Ballymoney Church given by Robinson family 1930