John Robinson (b. circa 1850): Biographical Entry

923 ROBINSON, John. ‘A Butler’s View of Man-Service’, The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 31. January – June, 1892. Extract in J. Burnett (ed.), Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820’s to the 1920’s (Allen Lane, London: 1974), p 203-209.

The opinions of a butler who placed the blame on the ‘servant problem’ on the attitude and irresponsibility of employers.