[1][2] Robinson was a Quaker and arrived aboard the Cornubia in Sydney in June 1842.
Benjamin Boyd was a partner, and together they set up an office at Church Hill.
Robinson's banking business brought him to the Port Phillip District in 1843[2] and in March 1844,[3] he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council for the Town of Melbourne.
[1] Robinson was the seconder of John Dunmore Lang's motion in the New South Wales Legislative Council that the Port Phillip District be separated from New South Wales.
[1][4] Robinson died at his residence, Neutral Bay, North Shore, Sydney, New South Wales, of scarlet fever on 13 August 1848.