Lieutenant-colonel Douglas Charles Robinson was British army officer and a first-class cricketer who captained Gloucestershire.

He also played for Essex, Marylebone Cricket Club and for the amateur Gentlemen and England XI teams.

[1][2] Robinson was born in 1883 at Lawrence Weston House near Bristol, and educated at Marlborough College.

[3] He attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned as a Second lieutenant in the 3rd (militia) Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment on 19 March 1902.

[4] He fought in World War I with the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster), and became a lieutenant-colonel.