Marquess of Ripon
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Marquess of Ripon, in the County of York, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1871 for the Liberal politician George Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon.
F. J. Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon, portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence
Central part of an engraved escutcheon Robinson quartering Weddell, for 3rd Lord Grantham, on silver gilt, with marks for Robert Garrard, London and 1802.
George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon,, styled Viscount Goderich from 1833 to 1859 and as Earl de Grey and Ripon from 1859 to 1871, was a British politician and Viceroy and Governor
Marquess of Ripon
…Marquess of Ripon, in the County of York, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1871 for the Liberal politician George Robinson, 2nd Earl of Ripon. The Robinson family descended from William Robinson (d. 1616), a wealthy York merchant, Lord Mayor and Member of Parliament for York. His grandson Sir…
Ripon in the 1890s
Lord Ripon by George Frederic Watts
Robinson caricatured in Vanity Fair, 1869