Born on 27 July 1887 son of Joseph Henry Robinson and Caroline Sandford he was educated privately in Southport and at Liverpool University. His clinical training took place at University College Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served as an acting Major and surgical specialist in the RAMC with the British Salonika Force. After the war he was appointed honorary surgeon to the Women's Hospital, Liverpool and the Maternity Hospital, Liverpool, later becoming Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology in the University of Liverpool. He was a Fellow of the North of England Gynaecological Society and its President in 1933-34, and he was a member of the Liverpool Medical Institution and its President in 1940-41. At various times he examined in obstetrics and gynaecology for the Universities of London, Manchester, Sheffield, and Wales, and for the Conjoint Board in London. Fishing and numismatics were his main hobbies, apart from gardening and photography, and he was an authority on Peninsula war medals, his collection being probably the finest in the world. His wife, whom he married in 1914, predeceased him and they had one daughter. Having lived at Little Neston, Cheshire, he retired first to Warsash near Southampton and then to Ringwood. He died in Salisbury Hospital after a short illness on 28 May 1959 survived by his second wife, Joan.