Nationality United Kingdom | Name Caroline Robbins | |
Born August 18, 1903 Middlesex Died February 8, 1999
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania | ||
Dentist of the Year Dr Caroline Robbins
Caroline Robbins or Caroline Herben (18 August 1903 – 8 February 1999) was a British historian who was a professor at Bryn Mawr College. She wrote The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman in 1959.
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Robbins was born in Middlesex in 1903. Her parents were Rowland Richard (1872–1960) and Rosa Marion Robbins (nee Harris). Her father was a farmer and he was on Middlesex county council. Her brother, Lionel, would become an economist.
She took her doctorate at London University with a treatise on Andrew Marvell. Robbins became an instructor in British history at Bryn Mawr College in 1929. She served in that department for 42 years. She wrote The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman in 1959.
Robbins died in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in 1999. After she died a professorship was founded in her name.