Caroline Robbins

Caroline Robbins
Born August 18, 1903
Middlesex
Died February 8, 1999
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Nationality United Kingdom

Caroline Robbins or Caroline Herben (August 18, 1903 – February 8, 1999) was a British historian who was a professor at Bryn Mawr College. She wrote The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman in 1959.

Life

Robbins was born in Middlesex in 1903.[1] Her parents were Rowland Richard (1872–1960) and Rosa Marion Robbins (nee Harris). Her father was a farmer and he was on Middlesex county council. Her brother, Lionel, would become an economist.[2]

She took her doctorate at London University with a treatise on Andrew Marvell. Robbins became an instructor in British history at Bryn Mawr Collegein 1929. She served in that department for 42 years. She wrote The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman in 1959.[1]

Robbins died in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in 1999. After she died a professorship was founded in her name.[1]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 J. R. Pole, ‘Robbins , Caroline (1903–1999)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 Sept 2015
  2. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography


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