Born at Huddersfield on 17 January 1859, the second son and third child of William Robinson, MRCS 1840, surgeon to the Huddersfield Infirmary, and Ellen Marshall, his wife. His grandfather, George Robinson, MRCS 1807, had also been surgeon to the Huddersfield Infirmary. Frederick William Robinson, after an early education at St Peter's School, York, entered Rossall in 1874 and left in 1876 when the school was under the headmastership of Dr H A James. He was in Spread Eagle house, conducted by Henry Magee Ormsby. He then went to Guy's Hospital and graduated at Aberdeen, as was then not uncommon with London medical students. He settled at Huddersfield as soon as he was qualified and was appointed surgeon to the Infirmary in 1892. During the Boer war he obtained leave of absence and acted as a civil surgeon in South Africa. In February 1910 he became senior surgeon to the Huddersfield Infirmary, resigned in November 1912 under a twenty years' rule and was elected consulting surgeon. For many years he was district surgeon to the London and North Western Railway. He lived for a time at Buxton after his retirement and finally moved to Colwyn Bay where he died on 3 June 1936. He married Janet, the fourth daughter of J Moncrieff Wilson on 29 July 1886. She survived him with a son, Major W Moncrieff Robinson, of the Sherwood Foresters, and a daughter. Publications: The use of decalcified bones in the treatment of wounds. *Lancet*, 1897, 2, 857. A new cranial osteotome worked by an electro-motor. *Ibid* 1899, 2, 1529. The helix needle. *Ibid* 1902, 2, 160.