Frederick Philipse Robinson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frederick Philipse Robinson

British Army general

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1763

Place of Birth: New York, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1852

Profession: military personnel

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, GCB (September 1763 – 1 January 1852) was a soldier who fought for Britain during the American War of Independence.
His father, Colonel Beverley Robinson, was a Virginian who moved to New York, marrying a wealthy heiress of the Philipse family with Dutch and Bohemian ancestry, Susanna Philipse.
Frederick was born in the Hudson Highlands on the family estate in the Philipse Patent, today's Putnam County, New York, in September 1763. On the conclusion of peace he went to England.
He subsequently took part in the War of 1812 with the United States and commanded a brigade at the unsuccessful Battle of Plattsburgh.
In 1813 and 1814 he commanded a brigade under the Duke of Wellington in Spain.
He was a provisional Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada in 1815.
Afterwards he was governor of Tobago, and he became a general in 1841.
In time he became the oldest soldier in the British service, and died at Brighton, England, at the age of 88.