What was unique about Robinson's castle
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At the 1727 British general election Robnson was returned as Member of Parliament for Morpeth, through the influence of George Bowes. He was a government supporter. Seeing no prospect of being returned at Morpeth at the 1734 British general election, he sought a seat in Cornwall, but without success. He made some long speeches in Parliament.[2] They included one which, according to Horace Walpole, he was supposed to have found among the papers of his wife's first husband.[1]
Rokeby Hall
Robinson was created a baronet on 10 March 1731, with remainder to his brothers and to Matthew Robinson, and from November 1735 to February 1742 he was a commissioner of excise.[1] He became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1735.[3]
Robinson's expenditure was extravagant. He rebuilt Rokeby Hall at Rokeby Park, the name of which he changed from Rookby.[2] He enclosed the park with a stone wall (1725–30), and planted many forest trees (1730). These acts were recorded in 1737, in two Latin inscriptions on two marble tables, fixed in the two stone piers at the entrance to the park from Greta Bridge. He practically made the place of which Sir Walter Scott wrote in his poem Rokeby, and built the great bridge which spans the River Tees there.[1]
In London Robinson threw balls aimed at the people in power and in fashion; and ruined himself. Horace Walpole gave an account of his ball for a daughter of the Duke of Richmond in October 1741. There were two hundred guests invited. A second ball was given by him on 2 December 1741, when six hundred persons were invited and two hundred attended