Finding Aid:
DDX1206
Title:
THOMAS ROBSON OF POCKLINGTON, RECORDS
Repository:
East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies (UK47)
Level:
Collection
Description:
Includes records of Thomas Robson 1875-1924, his wife Eva Robson 1918, his son Richard Robson 1901-1920, son Frederick William Robson 1904-1918, son Edward Moore Robson 1914-1920, the sons First World War records [1915-1917] and other records relating to the history of the Robson family
Admin History:
Thomas Robson was born on 17 September 1855 at Full Sutton, the seventh child of George and Mary Robson. At around 13 years of age he began working for John and Robert Holtby, solicitors of York, possibly as an office junior where he began serving his articles of clerkship in 1875. In 1880 he qualified as a solicitor. He was later appointed appointed Clerk to the Guardians, to the Rural Sanitary Authority (afterwards the Rural District Council), the Assessment Committee and the School Attendance Committee on 5 November 1881.On April 16 1883 Thomas married Eva Moore, daughter of a yeoman farmer, at Hatfield parish church near Doncaster. They settled in Pocklington at Pembroke Lodge, Chapmangate. Thomas and Eva had five sons: Richard, born 1884; Thomas, born 1885; Frederick William, born 1887; Edward Moore, born 1890, and John Stanley, born 1893.In September 1886 Thomas was made a Perpetual Commissioner and then appointed Clerk to the Magistrates of Wilton Beacon (Pocklington) and Holme Beacon (Market Weighton) Petty Sessional Divisions in December 1886. Thomas was honorary secretary to the Pocklington Queen Victoria Jubilee Celebration Committee in 1887 and the chairman of the committee of the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee celebration in 1897. In 1905 he was elected President of the Yorkshire Law Society.A period of personal tragedy for Thomas Robson began on 4 July 1915, when his wife Eva died at a nursing home in Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, London. Later his son Frederick William was killed in action during the First World War on 28 March 1918. This was quickly followed by the death of eldest son Richard from heart disease on 30 March 1918. On 17 April 1918 another son serving in the War, Edward Moore, was reported wounded and missing, and it was later confirmed that he was dead. The four deaths in the family proved too traumatic for Thomas who retired from all of his duties and left Pocklington to live with his second son, also called Thomas, in Hatfield, near Doncaster. Thomas Robson (senior) died in 1924. Thomas Robson (junior) was a successful agriculturalist and died on 3 May 1957. John Stanley Robson, who had survived the War, died in 1981. For further details of Thomas Robson's sons, see individual section descriptions in this catalogue, and also DDX1206/7/1.Sources: DDX1206/7/1 'The Robsons of Pocklington', a history of the life of Thomas Robson and his sons.
Custodial History:
Deposited by a descendant of Thomas Robson.
Subject:
SOLICITORS
Subject:
FIRST WORLD WAR
Subject:
WORLD WAR ONE
