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THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D.D., F.R.S., whose death we recorded in our last issue, was born in Dublin on April 23, 1793. His abilities and genius seem to have been manifested at a very early age, and his first appearance as an author dates so far back as 1806. On that occasion his venture was entitled “Juvenile Poems by Thomas Romney Robinson, to which is prefixed a short account of the Author by a Member of the Belfast Literary Society:” Belfast, 1806. The book contains a number of poems written by the author at various ages below thirteen. Dr. Robinson's last publication is in the Philosophical Transactions for 1880, and it must be regarded as a curious circumstance in literary history that an interval of three-quarters of a century should have elapsed between Dr. Robinson's first appearance as an amateur and his last.
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Thomas Romney Robinson, D.D. . Nature 25, 468–469 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025468a0
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