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Also Known As 1st Baron Rosmead of Rosmead and of Tafelberg • Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson
Born December 19, 1824 • Ireland
Died October 28, 1897 (aged 72) • London • England
Title / Office governor (1881-1889), Cape Colony

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Sir Hercules Robinson, lithograph by W.H. Schröder
Colonial Southern Africa, 1884–1905
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Earl Amherst, detail of an oil painting after A. Devis; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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