Ripon, FREDERICK JOHN ROBINSON, EARL OF, was born 1st November 1782, the second son of the second Lord Grantham. After graduating at Cambridge, in 1806 he entered parliament as a moderate Tory, and had successively been Under-secretary for the Colonies, Vice-president of the Board of Trade, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, when, having that same year been created Viscount Goderich, in August 1827 he became head of a seven months' administration. He held office afterwards as Secretary for the Colonies, Lord Privy Seal, and President of the Board of Trade; in 1833 was created Earl of Ripon; and died 28th January 1859.
GEORGE FREDERICK SAMUEL ROBINSON, MARQUIS OF RIPON, was born in London 24th October 1827, and succeeded his father as Earl of Ripon and Viscount Goderich, his uncle as Earl de Grey, Baron Grantham, and a baronet. Since 1852 he had sat in parliament as a Liberal for Hull, Huddersfield, and the West Riding, and he became successively Under-secretary for War (1859), Under-secretary for India (1861), Secretary for War (1863), Secretary of State for India (1866), Lord President of the Council (1868), Grand-master of the Freemasons (1870, which office he resigned in 1874 on his conversion to Catholicism), Marquis of Ripon (1871), Viceroy of India (1880–84, where he was popular with the natives, unpopular with Anglo-Indians), First Lord of the Admiralty in 1886, and Colonial Secretary in 1892 and 1894.