What Andrew found about Robert Robinson

Andrew found a good deal of information about Robert Robinson. I'm not sure of the source, but it is an interesting supplement to what I had found in my usual sources:

It is a captain Robert Robinson. He commanded the frigate Plover (26 guns) at the battle of Portland (1653). I think that was a Sir Robert Robinson, that he lived from 1624 to 1705. A ship-owner of unknown origins, Robinson obtained a naval commission in October 1652. He had a long, active, and successful career in the Royal Navy, serving with distinction in the second Dutch War. He achieved command of a Channel squadron in 1668 and was knighted for his naval services in 1675. Robinson first came to Newfoundland in 1661 at the time of Lord Baltimore.s attempt to establish proprietary government. He returned as commodore of the annual convoys in 1665, 1668, and 1680. In 1682 a commission for Robinson's court-martial was issued after he had allegedly allowed the dispersal of the incoming convoy from Cadiz, but apparently no trial took place. In 1686 he was appointed governor of Bermuda. During an unhappy term of office there he was constantly charged with financial corruption, and was recalled at his own request in 1690. His active career was now over, though he put forward further tracts on Newfoundland in 1693 and 1696, merely restatements of his earlier views, and asked, without success, to be restored as governor of Bermuda. He died, on a rear-admiral's life-pension, at the age of eighty-one.