GRANTHAM, THOMAS ROBINSON, 1ST BARON (c. English diplomatist and politician, a younger son of Sir William Robinson, Bart. of Newby, Yorkshire, was educated at Trinity college, Cambridge. He gained his earliest diplomatic experience in Paris and then went to Vienna, where he was English ambassador from 173o to 1748. During 1i41 he failed to make peace between the empress Maria Theresa and Frederick the Great, and in 1748 he represented his country at the congress of Aix-la-Chapelle. He sat in parliament for Christchurch from to 1761, and was appointed a secretary of State and leader of the House of Commons by the prime minister, the duke of New castle. On this occasion Pitt made the famous remark to Fox: "the duke might as well have sent us his jackboot to lead us." In Nov. 1755 he resigned, and in April 1761 was created Baron Grantham. He held other minor offices. He died in London on Sept. 3o, 1770.