Baron Rosmead

Baron Rosmead, of Rosmead in the County of Westmeath and of Tafelberg in South Africa, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[1] It was created on 11 August 1896 for the colonial administrator Sir Hercules Robinson, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Baronet, of Ennismore Gardens in the Parish of St Margaret, Westminster, in the County of London, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 6 February 1891.[2] The titles became extinct on the death of his son, the second Baron, in 1933.

Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead.

Several other members of the Robinson family also gained distinction.[3] Hercules Robinson, father of the first Baron, was an admiral in the Royal Navy. Sir Henry Robinson, brother of the first Baron, was vice-president of the Local Government Board in Ireland between 1879 and 1891. Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson, brother of the first Baron, was also a prominent colonial administrator. Frederick Charles Robinson, brother of the first Baron, was a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy. Loftus Christopher Hawker Robinson, brother of the first Baron, was a captain in the Royal Navy. Sir Bryan Robinson, uncle of the first Baron, was a judge of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland between 1858 and 1877. Christopher Robinson, grandfather of the first Baron, was a judge of the King's Bench of Ireland. Bryan Robinson, great-grandfather of the first Baron, was Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College, Dublin.