Fred Colson Robinson (23 September 1930, Birmingham, Alabama – 5 May 2016, New Haven, Connecticut) was an American historian at Yale University.
[2] Robinson received in 1953 his bachelor's degree in English and fine arts from Birmingham–Southern College and his M.A.
and Ph.D. in English and comparative linguistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[3] In 1984 he shared the Haskins Medal with Stanley B. Greenfield for their 1980 book A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972.
[2] In 1996 he delivered the British Academy's Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture.