John Yate Robinson

John Robinson
Personal information
Born(1885-08-06)6 August 1885
Catford, England
Died23 August 1916(1916-08-23) (aged 31)
Roehampton, England
Sport
SportField hockey
PositionHalf-back
Senior career
Years Team Caps Goals
1906–1909 Cambridge University - -
1910 Sherborne - -
National team
Years Team Caps Goals
1907–1911 England 9 -
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing  Great Britain
Gold medal – first place1908 LondonTeam competition

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 49.
  2. ↑ "John Robinson". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "John Yate Robinson". Radley College Archives. Radley College. 17 June 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Casualty". CWGC.org. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
  5. 1 2 "John Yate Robinson". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
  6. ↑ "Hockey". Dorset County Chronicle. 24 February 1910. Retrieved 4 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "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.

Notes

  • Radley College Register 1847–1962, 1965.
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