Kenneth Robinson

Sir Kenneth Robinson (19 March 1911 – 16 February 1996) was a British Labour politician who served as Minister of Health in Harold Wilson's first government, from 1964 to 1968, when the position was merged into the new title of Secretary of State for Social Services.

Early life

The son of Dr Clarence Robinson and a nurse, Ethel Marion Linell, Kenneth Robinson was born on 19 March 1911 in Warrington, north west England and educated at Oundle School up to the point of his father dying when he was just 15 years old. After his mother pulled him from the school on cost grounds he later worked as a writer, insurance broker and company secretary. He joined the Royal Navy during World War II as an ordinary seaman, was commissioned in 1942 and promoted to lieutenant-commander in 1944. He served on the HMS King George V. Robinson's education was remarkable in that he received no further education after the age of 15 and was entirely self-taught.

Obituary in Independent 21 February 1996

Ken Robinson

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Ken Robinson (priest)

John Kenneth Robinson (born 17 December 1936) is a retired Anglican priest.

Robinson was educated at Balshaw’s Grammar School, Leyland and King's College London. He was ordained in 1963. After curacies at St Chad's Poulton-le-Fylde and Lancaster Priory, in 1966 became a chaplain at St John’s Army Children’s School, Singapore and then the vicar of Holy Trinity, Colne. He then became Director of Education for the Diocese of the Windward Isles and then the vicar of St Luke's Skerton. After this he was a minor canon at St Edmundsbury Cathedral and then chaplain of Greater Lisbon. In 1994 he became the Archdeacon of Gibraltar and in 2000 its dean. He resigned in 2003 and is now retired.

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