THE NEW EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Evening Star, Issue 14987, 21 September 1912, Page 8

THE NEW EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Mr Geoffrey Robmsoa, the successor of Mr Buckle in the editorial cbair of tho London limes is one of " miner's young men." and unmarried, is the eldest son of Mr George Robinson, of Sldplon-in-Craven aud after passing through Eton he went to Magdalen College, Oxford, where ho did well, taking a first class in "litera humaniAU bouts, as was his predecessor, and then .ie left the classic shades of the university £"", ■, SSH 01 Afri «*n Department of the Colonial Office. That was at the beginning of the war. Mr Robinson succeeded so .well that when Lord Milner returned to England for a short holiday in 1901 be took Mr Robinsen back with him as his private secretary Mr Robinson tilled that position for four years, and saw the Peace of Vereeniging and the stormy times which followed. On the retirement of Lord Milner, when Lord Selborne was appointed Governor-General, ho left the Government House at Pretoria, and was appointed editor of the Jolianrrfsburg Star,' a post which his present colleague oil 'The Tunes,' Mr W. P. Monypennv, had previously resigned on account of hiis aversion to the introduction of Chinese labor into the Transvaal and tbo want of hanndnv of his views on that subject with those of" the proprietors of the paper. While at Johannesburg Mr Robinson acted as correspondent for ' The Times,' and when he returned to England two years ago he remained on the statT of tho paper, holding the appointment of assistant editor. In February last he was made a director of "The Times' Publishing Company. Mr Robinson is an Imperialist of tho flamboyant type, and is a strong Tariff Reformer.