John Bacon Sawrey Morritt
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John Bacon Sawrey Morritt was an English traveller, politician and classical scholar.
John Bacon Sawrey Morritt
Rokeby Venus, c. 1647–51. 122cm x 177 cm (48in x 49.7in). National Gallery, London.
Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet
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Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet (1703–1777), of Rokeby, Yorkshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734 and was a Governor of Barbados. He was an architect, collector and an extravagant character, whose life was the inspiration for numerous anecdotes.
Portrait of Sir Thomas Robinson, by Frans van der Mijn, ca. 1750
Rokeby Hall
Castle Howard, 19th-century engraving, view from the north-west with the Palladian west wing prominent
Gateway at Auckland Castle, design of Thomas Robinson for Richard Trevor