Sir Richard Atkinson Robinson, DL, (October 16, 1849–April 28, 1928) was a retail chemist and druggist, who later became a local politician and was the first Conservative to lead the London County Council (1907–1908).{{citation|title=Achievement: a short history of the London County Council |author= William Eric Jackson|year=1965|url=http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC04578133&id=tcoHAAAAMAAJ&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&pgis=1|publisher=[[Longmans]]}}.