A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Robinson, John Delancey
ROBINSON. (Lieut., 1823. f-p., 18; h-p., 15.)
John Delancey Robinson is youngest son of the late Colonel Robinson.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 Aug. 1814, as Fst.-cl. Boy, on board the Maeander 44, Capts. John Bastard and Arthur Fanshawe; in which ship, bearing the flag for some time of Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, he served off the coast of Portugal and in the Mediterranean until the autumn of 1816 – latterly in the capacity of Midshipman. He was next, for upwards of five years, employed in the Conqueror and Vigo 74’s, flag-ships of Rear-Admirals Robt. Plampin and Robt. Lambert at St. Helena; whence, in 1822, he returned to England in the Samarang 28, Capt. John Norman Campbell. On 16 June, 1823, five months after he had joined the Tyne 28, bearing the flags of Sir Chas. Rowley and Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the West Indies, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the Hyperion 42, Capt. Jas. Lillicrap. He had, previously to that event, assisted in the boats of the Tyne at the capture of a piratical vessel. His last appointments were – 5 April, 1824, to the Wellesley 74, Capt. Graham Eden Hamond, lying at Portsmouth – 6 Nov. following, to the Herald 10, Capts. Henry John Leeke, Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, Edw. Wm. Corry Astley, and Geo. Berkeley Maxwell, under whom he was, for upwards of five years, employed on a variety of particular services – and, 24 Aug. 1832, to the Coast Guard, in which service he remained until 1836.
Lieut. Robinson married, 10 Aug. 1836, Frances Ann, only daughter of Sam. Waring, Esq., of Grove Cottage, Dulwich, and the Oaks, Norwood, Surrey.- Agents – Hallett and Robinson.