Edward Austin Gossage Robinson, 1897–1993

Geoffrey Harcourt

Chapter 8 in 50 Years a Keynesian and Other Essays, 2001, pp 131-156 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Austin Robinson was born on 20 November 1897 at Farnham in Surrey, the eldest child of ‘an impecunious clergyman’, Albert Robinson, who read mathematics as a scholar of Christ’s College, Cambridge and became a wrangler. He was ordained at the age of twenty-four, and spent the next eight years as a curate. Austin’s mother, Edith Sidebotham, was the daughter of a clergyman who was the vicar at Bourne near Farnham in Surrey for thirty-three years.1 As Alec Cairncross (1993: 4) has told us, it was a very happy marriage. The Robinsons had four children: three boys and a girl. The children had a happy childhood, even though their father was a remote and distant figure so that their mother did the lioness’s share of their upbringing. The upbringing itself fostered self-reliance, fun and games as well as providing an introduction to a sense of duty and the practical application of Christian principles.

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Date: 2001
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