John Yate Robinson
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| Born |
6 August 1885 Catford, England | |||||||||||||
| Died |
23 August 1916 (aged 31) Roehampton, England | |||||||||||||
| Playing position | Half-back | |||||||||||||
| Senior career | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||
| 1906–1909 | Cambridge University | |||||||||||||
| 1910 | Sherborne | |||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | ||||||||||||
| 1907–1911 | England | 9 | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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John Yate Robinson MC (6 August 1885 – 23 August 1916)[1] was a field hockey player, who won a gold medal with the English team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.[2][3]
Biography
Born in Catford, son of clergyman the Reverend Edward Cecil Robinson and his wife Edith Isabella,[4] he was educated at Radley College[3] and Merton College, Oxford, where he was awarded his MA in 1912.[1] He was on the Oxford University hockey team from 1905 through 1909, eventually becoming captain. He became a teacher, serving as master at Sherborne School and in Broadstairs, Kent.[5]
He played nine times for England.[5] After Oxford, he played for Sherborne at club level and Dorset at county level.[6]
Robinson became a captain in the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1914, and served at Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross.[1] He died aged 31 at Roehampton, from wounds he had received in action at El Hannah in Mesopotamia.[1][3][7] He was buried at Great Malvern Cemetery, Worcestershire.[4]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 49.
- ^ "John Robinson". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ a b c "John Yate Robinson". Radley College Archives. Radley College. 17 June 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ a b "Casualty". CWGC.org. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
- ^ a b "John Yate Robinson". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ "Hockey". Dorset County Chronicle. 24 February 1910. Retrieved 4 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
External links
Notes
- Radley College Register 1847–1962, 1965.
