[1] His father, a planter, merchant, burgess and then member of the Governor's Council in 1692, died when he was twelve, so merchant and former burgess William Churchill, his father's executor and his mother's new husband, became guardian for Christopher and his elder brother John.
[2]: 218 Robinson then finished his education at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, which had become the colony's seat of government.
Robinson also followed his father's career path by serving as a local justice of the peace, as well as in the House of Burgesses.
[3] From 1680 and for nearly a decade except for the 1684 session, Middlesex County voters elected and re-elected Robinson as one of their representatives in the House of Burgesses.
[4] In 1703, Robinson married the former Judith Wormely, the daughter of Col. Christopher Wormeley (a nearby major planter who had served on the Governor's Council until his death in 1698) and widow of both William Beverley and Corbin Griffin, likewise all of the First Families of Virginia.