View source for John Yate Robinson

{{Short description|English field hockey player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{MedalTop}}
{{MedalSport | Men's [[Field hockey at the Summer Olympics|field hockey]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{flagicon|GBR}} [[Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics|Great Britain]] <br>({{fh|England}})}}
{{MedalGold| [[1908 Summer Olympics|1908 London]] | [[Field hockey at the 1908 Summer Olympics|Team competition]]}}
{{MedalBottom}}

'''John Yate Robinson''' [[Military Cross|MC]] (6 August 1885 – 23 August 1916)<ref name="MCreg">{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900–1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=49}}</ref> was a [[field hockey]] player, who won a gold medal with the [[England|English]] team at the [[1908 Summer Olympics]] in [[London]].<ref name="John Robinson">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/john-robinson-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042209/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/john-robinson-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=John Robinson |accessdate=3 August 2015 |work=Sports Reference}}</ref><ref name="Rad">{{cite web|title=John Yate Robinson|url=http://www.radleyarchives.co.uk/people/7764-john-yate-robinson|website=Radley College Archives|date=17 June 2013 |publisher=Radley College|accessdate=25 February 2016}}</ref>

Son of clergyman the Reverend Edward Cecil Robinson and his wife Edith Isabella,<ref name="cwgc">{{cite web|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/364053/robinson-john-yate/|title=Casualty|website=CWGC.org|access-date=7 February 2018}}</ref> he was educated at [[Radley College]]<ref name=Rad /> and [[Merton College, Oxford]], where he was awarded his MA in 1912.<ref name=MCreg /> He was on the Oxford University hockey team from 1905 through 1909, eventually captaining it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/18851 |title=John Yate Robinson |work=Olympedia |access-date=29 March 2021}}</ref>

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]].<ref name=MCreg />

He died aged 31 at [[Roehampton]], from wounds he had received in action at [[El Hannah]] in Mesopotamia.<ref name=MCreg /><ref name=Rad /><ref name="WWI">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=3 August 2015 |work=Sports Reference}}</ref> He was buried at Great Malvern Cemetery, [[Worcestershire]].<ref name="cwgc"/>

==See also==
* [[List of Olympians killed in World War I]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{sports links}}

==Notes==
*''Radley College Register 1847–1962'', 1965.

{{England FH Squad 1908 Summer Olympics}}
{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, John}}
[[Category:1885 births]]
[[Category:1916 deaths]]
[[Category:British military personnel killed in World War I]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Military Cross]]
[[Category:North Staffordshire Regiment officers]]
[[Category:English male field hockey players]]
[[Category:English Olympic competitors]]
[[Category:Field hockey players at the 1908 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain]]
[[Category:Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain]]
[[Category:British male field hockey players]]
[[Category:People educated at Radley College]]
[[Category:Alumni of Merton College, Oxford]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in field hockey]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Burials in Worcestershire]]
{{UK-fieldhockey-Olympic-medalist-stub}}
{{England-fieldhockey-bio-stub}}