John Yate Robinson

Olympic medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing Great Britain ; ( England)

John Yate Robinson MC (6 August 1885 – 23 August 1916)^[1] was a field hockey player, who won a gold medal with the English team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.^[2]^[3]

Son of clergyman the Reverend Edward Cecil Robinson and his wife Edith Isabella,^[4] he was educated at Radley College^[3] and Merton College, Oxford, where he was awarded his MA in 1912.^[1] He was on the Oxford University hockey team from 1905 through 1909, eventually captaining it.^[5]

He became a captain in the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1914, and served at Gallipoli and in Mesopotamia. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross.^[1]

He died aged 31 at Roehampton, from wounds he had received in action at in Mesopotamia.^[1]^[3]^[6] He was buried at Great Malvern Cemetery, Worcestershire.^[4]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 49.
^ "John Robinson". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "John Yate Robinson". Radley College Archives. Radley College. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Casualty". CWGC.org. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
^ "John Yate Robinson". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.