H.M. ROBINSON
HIS Majesty's Inspector of Factories for the Western District
of Scotland naturally plays a very vital, if mostly silent, part in the affairs
of a manufacturing city like Glasgow. Much of the improvement in the amenities
of factory life, and consequent improvement in the vital statistics of the city,
has been owed to the holders of this office.
Mr. Robinson was born in York in 1857, his father being one
of the Canons of York Minster. He was educated at Harrow and Oxford. In 1879 he
was one of the University crew which took part in the Oxford and Cambridge
boat-race, and at the end of the same year he took his degree. In 1882 he was
appointed one of H.M. Inspectors of Factories, and was attached to the Glasgow
District for three years and a half. Next, in 1886, he was placed in charge of
the Dundee District, which at that time comprised the whole of Scotland north of
the Tay. Nine years later he moved to one of the midland districts of England,
with headquarters at Nottingham, and in 1901 he was transferred once more to
Glasgow, where he still remains, and where his district includes, besides
Glasgow itself, the counties of Argyll, Dunbarton, Lanark, Renfrew, and
Stirling.
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