Born on 24 October 1886 at Barnsley, Yorkshire, the sixth child and fifth son of Charles Robinson, timber merchant, and Emma Naylor, his wife. He was educated at Barnsley High School, the Leeds Medical School, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After serving as house surgeon at the Leeds General Infirmary and as resident medical officer at the Leeds Public Dispensary, he became house surgeon at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital and chief clinical assistant and assistant in the LCC department at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moor-fields). He was later pathologist and finally consulting surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. He was also ophthalmic surgeon at the Mount Vernon Hospital and to the City and Metropolitan Police Orphanage. During the war he served at the Horton County of London War Hospital, with a commission as major, RAMC(T), dated 12 July 1917. Robinson practised at 88 Harley Street, and lived at 33 St John's Wood, Court, NW8. He married on 18 June 1903 Eva Henrietta Mundy, but they had no children. He died in a nursing-home on 26 July 1941, and was buried at Paddington cemetery. Publication: Case of metastatic suppurative irido-choroiditis. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1914-15, 8, Ophthal. p 123.