[1] Benjamin Robinson was born at Derby in 1666 and educated for the ministry by John Woodhouse[2] at Sheriff Hales, Shropshire.

He was subsequently chaplain at Normanton to Samuel Saunders, upon whose death he married and settled as Presbyterian minister of Findern, Derbyshire, being ordained on 10 October 1688.

[2] In 1700 he succeeded Woodhouse, his former tutor, as Presbyterian minister at Little St. Helen's, Bishopsgate Street in the City of London.

[3] Here he enjoyed great popularity as a preacher, having much natural eloquence, and a gift of rapid composition with a strong pen.

In 1705 he succeeded George Hamond as one of the Salters' Hall lecturers, and made this his first business when declining health compelled him to limit his work.