Frederick Walter Robinson

Frederick Walter Robinson (nickname Doc Robbie) (1888–1971) was an Australian academic at the University of Queensland.

[4] He returned to Australia where he was an assistant professor and taught modern languages at the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1913.

[7] Robinson married Catherine Campbell Robertson-Glasgow, a voluntary hospital worker on May 14, 1919 in London, and they returned to Australia and his work at Duntroon.

[9] The Report on the teaching of English in secondary schools in Queensland, published in October 1927, was the result of four years of characteristically methodical work by Robinson, involving the collation of responses to detailed questionnaires sent to every secondary school in Queensland as well as a considered response to some of the key issues – such as the relative importance of literary and language studies – raised by Newbolt.

The original library was stored in a cedar, glass-fronted bookcase in his university office and this cabinet remains on show within the Duhig Building.

Thirty-three of his boxes of papers, correspondence and letters are held in the Fryer Library,[10] documenting his work within Queensland and in supporting the establishment of the university at St Lucia.