Caroline Robbins
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Caroline Robbins | |
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| Born | 18 August 1903 Middlesex, England |
| Died | 8 February 1999 (aged 95) |
Caroline Robbins or Caroline Herben (18 August 1903 – 8 February 1999) was a British historian who was a professor at Bryn Mawr College.
Robbins was born in Middlesex in 1903.[1] Her parents were Rowland Richard (1872–1960) and Rosa Marion Robbins (nee Harris). Her father was a farmer and he was a Councillor on the Middlesex County Council. Her brother, Lionel, would become an economist.[2] The family were Strict Baptists and she identified with the English Nonconformist tradition.[1]
She took her doctorate at London University with a treatise on Andrew Marvell.[1] Robbins became an instructor in British history at Bryn Mawr College in 1929. She served in that department for 42 years. She wrote The Eighteenth Century Commonwealthman in 1959.[1]
She married Stephen J. Herben Jr., who was also a professor at Bryn Mawr, in 1932. Robbins died in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in 1999. After she died a professorship was founded in her name.[1]
