Benjamin Robinson

Benjamin Robinson was born at Derby in 1666 and educated for the ministry by John Woodhouse at Sheriff Hales, Shropshire. He began life as chaplain and tutor in the family of Sir John Gell at Hopton, Derbyshire. He was subsequently chaplain at Normanton to Samuel Saunders, upon whose death he married and settled as Presbyterian minister of Findern, Derbyshire, being ordained on 10 October 1688. Here he enjoyed great popularity as a preacher, having much natural eloquence, and a gift of rapid composition with a strong pen. In 1705 he succeeded George Hamond as one of the Salters' Hall lecturers, and made this his first business when declining health compelled him to limit his work. He died on 30 April 1724, and was buried in Bunhill Fields. He left a widow, Anne, and several children. ==Major works==

• A Plea for ... Mr. Baxter in answer to Mr. Lobb, &c., 1697, 8vo defends Baxter's view of the Atonement). • A Review of the Case of Liturgies, &c., 1710, 8vo. • A Letter ... in defence of the Review, &c., 1710, 8vo (both in reply to Thomas Bennet, D.D. • ' The Question stated, and the Scripture Evidence of the Trinity proposed,' 1719, 4to, being the second part of ' The Doctrine of the Ever Blessed Trinity stated and defended ... by four subscribing ministers.' ==References==