Everything about Melville Marks Robinson totally explained
Melville Marks (Bobby) Robinson (born in
Peterborough,
Ontario,
Canada on
April 8,
1888) founded the
British Empire Games, now known as the Commonwealth Games.
Bobby Robinson was a sports reporter for the
Hamilton Spectator. He attended the
1928 Summer Olympics in
Amsterdam as manager of the Canadian track and field team, to which he'd recruited
British Guiana runner
Phil Edwards, whose "country (actually a colony)" had no Olympic team; like other countries' teams, this was Canada's first-ever co-ed track and field team.
The Amsterdam Olympics provided Robinson with a venue for the contacts he'd need to sell the idea of holding British Empire Games in the "spirit of friendly competition". The
first British Empire Games were therefore held in
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1930, with Edwards competing for British Guiana.
The community-minded Robinson, who lived on a farm near Hamilton in
Burlington, Ontario (External Link
), (from 1920-1957) would later be appointed to the board of
Burlington High School, serving from 1940 to 1963, including its president from 1950 to 1963. Upon his retirement, a new school,
M.M. Robinson High School, was named in his honour.
He died on
June 6,
1974.
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