Charles Henry Robarts ⁹

  General Notes:

His wife was first married to Anthony Morris.

Sub Warden of All Souls College Oxford. Unsuccessfully contested Mid Surrey in 1868.

Letter to the Times 21 9 1868

Sir - with reference to an advertisement that appears in The Times today, relating to the Mid-Surrey election, and apparently reflecting upon the friends of Mr CH Robarts, will you allow me to say that I am confidently assured that the fact of Mr CH Robarts having been recently called to the Bar has been constantly and openly stated by his chief supporters, and that no connexion with the banking firm in Lombard street has ever been suggested, except by the well-known fact of his father and grandfather having been the senior partners, and by the names of two members of that firm appearing on the list of the general committe?

I am Sir, your obedient servant

CP Villiers, Chairman of the General Committee of Mr Goldsmid and Mr Robarts.

On 03rd Feb 1881 he was made to resign as City Rembrancer, he was appointed to the position on 31st Oct 1878, after allegations of improper conduct relating to the books - he was accused of fraud by one of his senior clerks - but in 1881 fought a libel case against the clerk (Mr Lister) in which he was cleared of fraud but the judge said that the way he kept the books was "unbusinesslike and unwise". Having proved himself innocent of fraud he dropped the case. He then subsequently took the Corporation of London to court for, in effect, wrongful dismissal - which he lost but subsequently sort of one on appeal but the matter wasn't fully settled until 1885 when the Corporation made a one off tax free payment to him of £1600 and waived their costs from the two caes.

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Obit The Times 02 Aug 1904

We regret to announce the death of Mr Charles Henry Robarts, second son of the late AG Robarts, which took place yesterday at 67 Cromwell Road, SW, after a long and painful illness.

Mr Robarts, who was born in 1840, played in his time many parts in life. A naval officer and a don at Oxford, a City banker and one of the chief officers of the City Corporation, a barrister and a Judge in one of our Crown Colonies, is a combination not often to be met with, He entered the Navy in 1852, and as a midshipman watched the great battle of the Alma from the deck of one of his Majesty's ships. He went up to Oxford as an undergraduate at Christ Church, obtained a first class in the Law and History school in 1862, and a fellowship at All Souls in 1864. For a short time he was a member of the well known banking house in Lombard street. He was called to the Bar in 1867, and in 1878 was elected by the Common Council to the office of City Remembrancer. The appointment was not a happy one. Mr Robarts felt it his duty to take exception to certain matters. The Corporation revoked the appointment. The Remembrancer claimed that his office was freehold. The courts of law decided against him , but the Corporation voluntarily gave him compensation for the office of which he had been deprived. He subsequently for some time acted as chief Judge in the Turks and Caicos Islands. After his return he married in 1899, Julia, widow of Mr A Norris, and daughter of Mr Vincent Eyre, of Lindley Hall, and so ceased to be a fellow of All Souls. Mr Robarts was a man of impetuous energy, which sometimes brought him into collision with those less in sympathy with the ideas which he advocated. The work of his life of which he was probably most proud was the initiation of the law library at All Souls which has since developed into one of the best law libraries in England, and the centre of the school of law in Oxford. For this the University and the College owe him a debt of gratitude.

The funeral will take place tomorrow at the Oratory, Brompton, at 10am. Friends will kindly accept this the only intimation.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Address: 1841, Besborough Cottage, Roehampton, Surrey.

• Occupation/Address: Boarder, 1851, 25 Banterbury Quad?.

• Matriculated: 21 Oct 1858, Christ Church College, Oxford.

• Address: Lodger, 1861, 14 St James Place.

• BA: 1862, Oxford, Oxfordshire.

• Fellow: 1864, All Souls' College, Oxford.

• MA: 1865, Oxford, Oxfordshire.

• Bar at Law: 1867, Lincoln's Inn, London.

• Librarian: 1870, Oxford, Oxfordshire.

• Address: Lodger, 1871, 9 Little Stanhope Street, London.

• Remembrancer: 1878-1881, City of London. The Rememberancer represents the corporation of the city of London before parliamentary committees.

• Sub Warden: 1878, Oxford, Oxfordshire.

• He worked as a Remembrancer of the City of London on 31 Oct 1878. Citizen and Spectacle Maker, Barrister-at-Law, elected by the Court of Common Council

From: 'The Remembrancers of the City of London', Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia: 1579-1664 (1878), pp. X-XV. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=59891&strquery=robarts Date accessed: 06 February 2009.

• He worked as a Barrister At Law Fellow Of All Souls College Oxford in 1881 in St Augustine, London.

• Occupation/Address: Barrister at Law, 1891, 9 Little Stanhope Street, London. Boarder

• Occupation/Address: Barrister at Law, 1901, 67 Cromwell Road, London.

Charles married Julia May Eyre in 1899 in Westminster, Middlesex.⁷ (Julia May Eyre was born about 1850 in France ⁹.)