Thomas Robinson (1749–1813)

He was born at Wakefield, Yorkshire, on 10 September 1749, the fourth son of James Robinson, a hosier there.

He was sent at an early age to the Wakefield grammar school, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge as a sizar in 1768.

[1][2] Around 1772 Robinson was ordained to the joint curacies of Witcham and Wichford in the Isle of Ely, then from 1773 to 1778 he was afternoon lecturer at All Saints', Leicester, and chaplain to the infirmary.

His funeral sermon was preached by Edward Thomas Vaughan, who published a memoir of Robinson, with a selection of his letters, in 1815.

The earliest appeared in the Theological Miscellany of 1784, and the whole series was eventually printed under the title of Scripture Characters (1793, 4 vols.

His second wife, whom he married in 1797, was the widow of James Gerard, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.