Hastings Robinson

Hastings Robinson, FSA (1792–1866), was an English Church of England clergyman and Anglican divine.

Richard George Robinson, vicar of Harborne, by his wife Mary, daughter of Robert Thorp of Buxton, Derbyshire, was born at Lichfield in February 1792.

[2] In 1837 he drew up and presented two memorials to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (London, 1837, 8vo), protesting against certain publications as contrary to the work of the Reformation.

[2] He married, in 1828, Margaret Ann, daughter of Joseph Clay of Burton-on-Trent, who predeceased him.

For the Parker Society he prepared The Zurich Letters, being the Correspondence of English Bishops and others with the Swiss Reformers during the Reign of Elizabeth, translated and edited, 2 vols., Cambridge, 1842 and 1845, 8vo, as well as Original Letters relative to the English Reformation, also from the Archives of Zurich, 2 vols., Cambridge, 1846 and 1847.