Background
Robbins, Caroline was born on August 18, 1903 in Sipson, England. Came to the United States, 1926, naturalized, 1933. Daughter of Rowland Richard and Rosa Marion (Harris) Robbins.
historian university professor
Robbins, Caroline was born on August 18, 1903 in Sipson, England. Came to the United States, 1926, naturalized, 1933. Daughter of Rowland Richard and Rosa Marion (Harris) Robbins.
Bachelor, London University, 1924. Doctor of Philosophy, London University, 1926. Postgraduate, University Michigan, 1927.
Doctor of Laws, Smith College, 1971. Doctor of Letters, Wilson College, 1971.
She wrote The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman in 1959. 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 Collegein 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.
Fellow Royal History Society. Member American History Association (council 1964), Massachusetts History Association (honorary), Pennsylvania History Association (council since 1970, vice president 1977-1986), Renaissance Society of America, American Association of University Professors, American Association of University Women, League of Women Voters, Radner History Society (vice president 1948-1957, president 1957-1964), Institute Early American History and Culture (council), Conference British Studies (president 1971-1973).
Married Stephen Herben, September 21, 1932.