Charles Walker Robinson
Major-General Sir Charles Walker Robinson, was a British North American-born British Army officer and writer on military subjects.
Born in Toronto, Upper Canada, the son of John Beverley Robinson, he attended Trinity College, before joining the British Army as a second lieutenant in the Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade). He fought in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, then the Third Anglo-Ashanti War, then the Anglo-Zulu War. He became a Major-General in 1892. He was Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and a Lieutenant-Governor of Royal Hospital Chelsea. He died in London, England.
Robinson was designated a Person of National Historic Significance in 1938 by the Canadian government.
Works
Life of Sir John Beverley Robinson Canada and Canadian defence: the defensive policy of the Dominion in relation to the character of her frontier, the events of the War of 1812–14, and her position to-day- ''Wellington's campaigns, Peninsula—Waterloo, 1808-15; also Moore's campaign of Corunna''