biography
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Robinson, Henry Crabb
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| lived:
| (1775–1867)
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| biography:
| Journalist and diarist, born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, E England, UK. He was articled to an attorney (1790–5), then travelled in Germany and studied at Jena University. He joined The Times in 1807 as a foreign correspondent, and covered the Peninsular War as a war correspondent, the first of his kind (1808–9). His valuable diaries (first published 1869) describe life with the major figures of the Romantic period, including Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Lamb. He was one of the founders of London University (1828), and of the Athenaeum Club in London (1824). |
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