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Edward Austin Gossage Robinson, 1897–1993

In: 50 Years a Keynesian and Other Essays

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  • G. C. Harcourt

    (Jesus College
    University of Adelaide)

Abstract

Austin Robinson was born on 20 November 1897 at Farnham in Surrey, the eldest child of ‘an impecunious clergyman’, Albert Robinson, who read mathematics as a scholar of Christ’s College, Cambridge and became a wrangler. He was ordained at the age of twenty-four, and spent the next eight years as a curate. Austin’s mother, Edith Sidebotham, was the daughter of a clergyman who was the vicar at Bourne near Farnham in Surrey for thirty-three years.1 As Alec Cairncross (1993: 4) has told us, it was a very happy marriage. The Robinsons had four children: three boys and a girl. The children had a happy childhood, even though their father was a remote and distant figure so that their mother did the lioness’s share of their upbringing. The upbringing itself fostered self-reliance, fun and games as well as providing an introduction to a sense of duty and the practical application of Christian principles.

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  • G. C. Harcourt, 2001. "Edward Austin Gossage Robinson, 1897–1993," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: 50 Years a Keynesian and Other Essays, chapter 8, pages 131-156, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52331-9_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523319_8
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