Born in 1882 the son of an artist he was educated at Marlborough College and Guy's Hospital where he won the Treasurer's gold medal in clinical surgery in 1903, qualified in 1904 and served as house surgeon. He was a clinical assistant at the Evelina Hospital for Children. After taking the Fellowship in 1907 he settled in general practice at the Crescent, Plymouth, joining the partnership of R H Hughes MRCS 1872. Dr Hughes' son, E C Hughes FRCS, had been his contemporary at Marlborough and Guy's and became a distinguished London consultant. Robinson was soon appointed an assistant surgeon at the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital and was ultimately the senior surgeon, being made consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1945. He was also consulting surgeon to the East Cornwall Hospital, Bodmin, and to the hospitals at Liskeard, Fowey, Kingsbridge, and Totnes. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC at the 4th Southern General Hospital, Plymouth, and throughout the second world war when Plymouth was severely bombed he practised in the town. He was elected President of the Plymouth Medical Society. Robinson was a keen sportsman, enjoying fly-fishing, shooting and wild-fowling in Devon; he was also a first-class rifle-shot and competed at Bisley for many years. He was fond of yachting, and was a keen ornithologist. He was a skilled metal-worker and belonged to the Guild of Silversmiths. Robinson was twice married. His first wife Helen Margaret died on 18 December 1955, leaving a son and daughter. On his retirement he settled at Ton Fields, Sheepstor, Yelverton, Devon, where he died on 20 March 1958 aged 75 after considerable suffering stoically borne; his second wife survived him. There is a memorial tablet in Sheepstor Church.