William Robson, Baron Robson
- William Robson, Baron Robson
William Snowdon Robson, Baron Robson PC, QC (10 September 1852 – 11 September 1918) was a British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician.
Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he was educated at Caius College, Cambridge. Called to the Bar in 1880, he became a Queen's Counsel in 1892. From 1885 to 1886 he was also Member of Parliament (MP) for Bow and Bromley, and for South Shields from 1895 to 1910. He was Solicitor General for England and Wales from 1905 to 1908, and Attorney General for England and Wales from 1908 to 1910. Knighted in 1905, he was appointed to the Privy Council. On 7 October 1910, he was made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and a life peer with the title Baron Robson, of Jesmond in the County of Northumberland; he resigned as Lord of Appeal two years later. He died, aged 66, in Sussex.
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