Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Baronet
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Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Baronet
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Joseph Benjamin Robinson, was a South African gold and diamond mining magnate and Randlord. Mayor of Kimberley, Northern Cape in 1880, which he represented in the Cape parliament for four years, chairman of the Robinson South African Banking Corporation Co, Ltd and of numeral gold mines in the Transvaal Colony, he was convicted in 1921 of fraud and fined half a million pounds. He is best remembered as having paid political fixer Maundy Gregory £30,000, towards Prime Minister Lloyd George’s polit
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South African mining magnate who attempted to buy a peerage
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Joseph_Robinson,_1st_Baronet
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2005-10-13T16:02:46Z
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2024-09-03T09:55:41Z
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