A banker in Lombard Street, he was appointed the circulating cashier of the Charitable Corporation.
He and several officers of the Corporation obtained money from it by pawning false pledges, and proceeded to engage in a large scale speculation in the shares of that company and York Buildings Company, also borrowing against the shares purchased so that his partners failed to get what they bought.
Robinson obtained a seat in the House of Commons when he was elected MP for Great Marlow in 1731, but was unable to sit before the affair began to come to light.
[6] An earlier advertisement had also mentioned Temple Mills and a lock at Great Marlow.
[8] As an Act of Parliament had been passed making him a felon if he did not return by a certain date,[9] it is likely that he remained abroad for the rest of his life.