Built / Designed For: Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh and 1st Lord Rokeby, who was the sixth son of William Robinson of Rokeby Park in Yorkshire (today County Durham).

Collections: Sir Joshua Reynolds painted four portraits of Richard Robinson, the builder of Rokeby Hall. Robinson was a notable scholar and an important of patron of Irish architecture. The last of Reynolds's portraits of Robinson hung in Rokeby Hall and remained with the family until purchased by the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, in 1943, in whose collection it remains today. This painting is an autograph replica of a painting in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, which, when it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1775, caused Horace Walpole to call it the "best portrait [Reynolds] ever painted." The contents of the House were auctioned in 1943.

House Listed: National

Park Listed: Not Listed

Current Seat / Home of: Jean Young; here since 1995.

Past Seat / Home of: Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh and 1st Lord Rokeby, late 18th century; Archdeacon John Robinson, late 18th century; Sir Richard Robinson, mid-19th century; Robinson family here until 1912. Clinton family, 1912-51.

Current Ownership Type: Individual / Family Trust

Primary Current Ownership Use: Private Home

House Open to Public: Yes

Phone: 0868-644-228

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.rokeby.ie

Historic Houses Member: No