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==Early life== [[File:Robinson(WH)-('Uncle Lubin').jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|An illustration from ''The Adventures of Uncle Lubin'' (1902)]] William Heath Robinson was born in [[Hornsey Rise]], London, on 31 May 1872<ref>{{cite book |last1=Day |first1=Langston |title=The Life and Art of W. Heath Robinson |date=1976 |publisher=EP Pub |location=Wakefield |isbn=0715811800 |page=17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jh9QAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Heath+Robinson%22+%22May+31+,+1872%22 |access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref> into a family of artists in Stroud Green, [[Finsbury Park]], North London. His grandfather Thomas, his father Thomas Robinson (1838β1902) and brothers [[Thomas Heath Robinson]] (1869β1954) and [[Charles Robinson (illustrator)|Charles Robinson]] (1870β1937) all worked as illustrators. His uncle Charles was an illustrator for ''[[The Illustrated London News]]''.<ref name="PAW 1939">{{cite news|last1=Sly |first1=Muriel |title=Men who can make us laugh |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-jan-14-1939-3775833/ |access-date=11 March 2023 |newspaper=Perth West Australian |date=14 January 1939 |page=5}}</ref>
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