[1][2] Robinson studied at Clifton College, Bristol, and Christ Church, Oxford.
After a period at the Home Office, he returned to the British Museum and eventually became Deputy Keeper in 1936.
He retired in 1955, but continued to offer his expertise as an advisor in the Heberden Coin Room at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to which he endowed his own collection in 1964.
The ESG Robinson Trust remains active in supporting the field of numismatics.
For a complete list of publications, see "Bibliography of Stanley Robinson's works 1914–1966" in Colin M. Kraay and G. Kenneth Jenkins (eds), Essays in Greek Coinage Presented to Stanley Robinson (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 1968, pp.