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| Period in Office: | September, 1827 – January, 1828 |
| PM Predecessor: | George Canning |
| PM Successor: | The Duke of Wellington |
| Date of Birth: | 1 November 1782 |
| Place of Birth: | London |
| Political Party: | Tory |
Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon (November 1, 1782 - January 28, 1859), known as Frederick John Robinson (until 1827), Viscount Goderich (1827-1833), and Earl of Ripon (1833 onwards), was a British statesman and Prime Minister.
After studying at Harrow and Cambridge, Robinson entered parliament in 1806, and served in various minor positions in the government of Lord Liverpool, including Treasurer of the Navy, from which position he sponsored the Corn Laws of 1815, before entering the Cabinet in 1818 as President of the Board of Trade. In 1823 Robinson succeeds Nicholas Vansittart as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
In 1827 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Goderich, and served as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies and Leader of the House of Lords in George Canning's short-lived government. On Canning's death Goderich succeeded him as leader of a tenuous coalition of moderate Tories and Whigs, but it only lasted a few months and did not even meet Parliament. Goderich was succeeded by the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.
In 1831 Goderich moved over to the Whigs and joined Lord Grey's cabinet, again as Colonial Secretary. In 1833 he became Earl of Ripon, and became Lord Privy Seal. But the next year he broke with the Whigs over Irish disestablishment.
Ripon later served in Peel's second administration as President of the Board of Trade (1841-1843) and then as President of the Board of Control (1843-1846).
Ripon's second son, the George Robinson, Marquess of Ripon, was a Cabinet minister in later British governments.
| Preceded by: Nicholas Vansittart | Chancellor of the Exchequer 1823–1827 | Followed by: George Canning |
| Preceded by: The Earl Bathurst | Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1827 | Followed by: William Huskisson |
| Preceded by: The Earl of Liverpool | Leader of the House of Lords 1827–1828 | Followed by: The Duke of Wellington |
| Preceded by: George Canning | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1827–1828 | Followed by: The Duke of Wellington |
| Preceded by: Sir George Murray | Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1830–1833 | Followed by: Lord Stanley |
| Preceded by: The Lord Durham | Lord Privy Seal 1833–1834 | Followed by: The Earl of Carlisle |
| Preceded by: New Creation | Earl of Ripon | Followed by: George Robinson |
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