Nicholas Robinson
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Nicholas Robinson is an Irish author, historian, solicitor and poltical cartoonist. He is the husband of Mary Robinson, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he took a degree in Law.
Over the past three decades, has helped establish numerous bodies, among them the Irish Architectural Archive (with Edward McParland), the Birr Scientific and Heritage Foundation, the Irish Landmark Trust and (with his wife Mary) the Irish Centre for European Law at Trinity College.
His books include 'Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland' with the Knight of Glin and David Griffin, and 'Edmund Burke: a Life in Caricature' (Yale, 1996).
In 1995, when his wife held the office of the Irish presidency, he was fined IR£150 for travelling at 102mph on a motorway close to Maynooth[1], an embarrasment which was given significant media attention at the time.
With his wife Mary, he has two sons and one daughter, and two grandchildren.
