Hercules George Robert Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead (1824–97)

Colonial governor. Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1840. Second lieutenant, 1843; lieutenant, 1844. Resigned from the army in 1846. President of Montserrat, 1854; lieutenant-governor, St Christopher, 1855. Governor of Hong Kong, 1859; New South Wales, 1872; New Zealand, 1879. Cape governor and high commissioner for South Africa, 1881–9. Created first Baron Rosmead, 1891.