Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby

Matthew Robinson - Morris, 2nd Baron Rokeby (* April 12, 1713, † November 30, 1800 ) was a British aristocrat and an eccentric who preferred a wet environment dry.

Robinson, came from a Scottish family that lived in Kent. His family the title of " Rokeby " was granted by King George II. Robinson was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and the Royal Society, was briefly the Whigs and supported the claim to the throne of William of Orange. He traveled much, but eventually settled near Hythe in Kent. 1746 he changed his name from Matthew Robinson Matthew Robinson - Morris.

When his father Matthew Robinson died in 1778, Matthew took over, among others, a family-owned in Mount Morris near Canterbury. He represented Canterbury after the elections in 1747 and 1754 in the British Parliament. The title of Baron Rokeby he took over in 1794 after the death of his cousin, Richard Robinson, the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland.

Matthew was an enthusiastic supporter of baths for a holiday in the resort of Aachen. When he returned to Kent, he began to take day trips to the coast to swim extensively and to exhaustion in salt water regardless of the weather. Sometimes he fell while fainted and had to be rescued. He had specially built a hut for himself near Hythe and drinking fountains along the way to the beach, to have an estimate of its liquid always tangible. He went the way on foot, leaving his servants in the car follow with full livery. People he saw out of the wells while drinking, he gave half a crown.

He had grown a beard, which did not correspond to the contemporary fashion. Finally, he was so long that he went to him under the arms and could be seen from behind. After a few years he decided to build a swimming pool at his villa - it was built under glass and heated by the sun. There he spent hours, preferably alone. He declined even in the coldest weather, to heat his house.

His lifestyle promoted rumors, including that he was cannibal because he mainly ate beef broth and game nibbled. The visit by doctors he refused.

If Lord Rokeby once received visitors, he " entertained " them with long-winded, boring poems.

He never married and died in late November 1800 peacefully in his bed on dry land.

Works

• Considerations on the Measures Carrying on with respect to the British Colonies in North America, 2d ed, London, 1774th
• Considerations on the British Colonies. In 1775.
• Peace the Best Policy. 1777.