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Robinocracy|rɒbɪˈnɒkrəsɪ|
[f. the name Robin (Robin1) + -ocracy.]
The régime of Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745), the predominant figure in British politics between 1721 and 1742; the clique led by Walpole; the period of Walpole's supremacy.
1727Craftsman 22 July 71 This week was publish'd Robin's Panegyrick on Himself and his Friends at Westminster; modestly proving that they were all very honest Fellows and deserving Patriots; with a full Confutation of the charge of Bribery and Corruption Offered to the consideration of the Freeholders; Citizens, Burgesses and Freemen of Great-Britain. Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo. Hor. Printed for S.B. W.W. and T.W. Printers to the Robinocracy. a1902Acton Lect. Mod. Hist. (1906) xvi. 274 After the fall of Walpole it was observed..that the country felt itself superior to the government. This was the natural result of the time known as the Robinocracy; not because he devised liberal measures, but because he was careful to be neither wiser nor more liberal than the public. 1974J. B. Owen Eighteenth Cent. i. 23 On 19 April 1722 Sunderland died of pleurisy, and the way was open for Walpole to assert his supremacy. The Robinocracy had begun. 1977W. A. Speck Stability & Strife x. 222 Bolingbroke could be highly persuasive and his essays were the most substantial contemporary critiques of the Robinocracy. |