Robinson was the only son and only surviving child of George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon and grandson of Prime Minister F. J. Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon. His mother was Henrietta Anne Theodosia Vyner, daughter of Henry Vyner. Viscount Goderich was attached to the British commission sent, under his father"s head, to Washington to settle the Alabama claims in 1871.
He was educated at Eton College.
Styled Earl de Grey after his father was elevated to a marquessate later in 1871, he entered Parliament for Ripon in 1874, a seat he held until 1880. In 1909 he succeeded his father in the marquessate and took his seat in the House of Lords. He was Captain of the 27th West Riding of Yorkshire Volunteers in 1870, and Justice of the Peace for the counties of North and West Ridings and the Liberty of Ripon.
He was also a trustee of the Wallace Collection and a supporter of the Royal Opera House.
Lord Ripon was a fast, accurate game shooter, who was noted to down 28 pheasants in sixty seconds as a shooting party guest on the Sandringham House estate. He also holds the record of the greatest recorded lifetime bag of birds shot: 556,000, including 241,000 pheasants.
21st United Kingdom Parliament.
