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The Armagh Robinson Library was founded by the Archbishop of Armagh, Richard Robinson, in the city of Armagh in the 1770s when he chose to share his own collection with the local public. These special collections remain available for perusal by all in a building close by the ancient Protestant cathedral. The collections on display include ...
In 1790 he founded the Armagh Observatory as part of his plan for a university in Armagh. Archbishop Lord Rokeby died at Clifton in Bristol on 10 October 1794, and was buried in Armagh Cathedral. He was succeeded by Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby, the son of his second cousin Matthew Robinson, who inherited his titles, and was a noted ...
The Archbishop's Palace, Armagh, Northern Ireland, is a landmark Neo-Classical building located on 300 acres of parkland just south of the centre of the city. The building served as primary residence of the Church of Ireland Archbishops of Armagh for over two hundred years, from 1770 to 1975, and thereafter as headquarters of Armagh City and District Council from then until April 2015 when ...
Richard Robinson (1765–94) raised Armagh by his munificence from extreme decay to a state of opulence and embellished it with various useful public institutions. He built an episcopal headquarters, a public library, an infirmary, and an observatory. [4] [5] Lord John George Beresford (1822–62) was also distinguished by his munificence.
Baron Rokeby, of Armagh in the County of Armagh, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. [1] It was created in 1777 for The Most Rev. Dr Richard Robinson, Church of Ireland Lord Primate of All Ireland and Lord Archbishop of Armagh, with remainder to his brothers and his father's second cousin Matthew Robinson and the heirs male of their bodies ...
He became curator of Armagh County Museum in 1955 but colleague and current curator, Sean Barden, said one of "his most enduring legacies lies in the fieldwork he undertook, camera in hand, to ...
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It was founded in 1771 by Archbishop Richard Robinson (later created the first Baron Rokeby in 1777), using his own library as its nucleus. [35] It is especially rich in 17th- and 18th-century books in English, including Dean Jonathan Swift 's own copy of the first edition of his Gulliver's Travels with his manuscript corrections.